Quotes About Past

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward.

Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.

Before we became criminals. Before we became ghosts.

It is good to be loved, even though it will not last. It is good to know that once upon a time, there was Gat and me.

The story ended a long time ago

Es bueno que te quieran, aunque no dure. Es bueno saber que érase una vez Gat y yo.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers.

The volume of their past must be restored to its shelf, and here, here was the place, amid darkness and perishing flowers. He owed it to Alec also. He could suffer no mixing of the old in the new.

Ah! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!

And if we also ask, 'And how exactly did that happen?' we will be asking about history. Not just a story, but our story, the story that we call the history of the world. Shall we begin?

I have tried to tell the Story of Art as the story of a continuous weaving and challenging of traditions in which each work refers to the past and points to the future. For there is no aspect of this story more wonderful than this-- that a living chain of tradition still links the art of our own days with that of the Pyramid age.

E]very community insists on what Professor G. J. Renier calls "the Story that must be told" about its own past, and where scholarship decays, myth will crowd in.