Quotes About Past

Memories are like everything else. They're a trap.

I will always love you, or anyway, I will always have loved you now.

We'll always have yesterday.

You don't love me, but you used to. I wanted to say thank you for that.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.

Memory is the best of all gardens. Therein, winter and summer, the seeds of their past lie dormant, ready to spring into instant bloom at any moment the mind wishes to bring them to life.

I have been searching for time past all my life.

Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

Life is made up of circles ... Life is not a straight line ... And sometimes we circle back to a past time. But we are not the same. We are changed forever.

Naturally there is reincarnation ... otherwise life would be pretty dull. All the patterns in this lifetime are results from patterns in other lifetimes.

The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.