Quotes About Past

Memory's one function is to help us regret

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.

Had he lived some centuries ago, in the brightly coloured civilizations of the past, he would have had a definite status, his rank and his income would have corresponded. But in his day the angel of Democracy had arisen, enshadowing the classes with leathern wings, and proclaiming, "All men are equal--all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas...

Because a thing is going strong now, it need not go strong forever . . . This craze for motion has only set in during the last hundred years. It may be followed by a civilization that won't be a movement, because it will rest on the earth. All the signs are against it now, but I can't help hoping, and very early in the morning in the garden I feel that out house is the future as well as the past.

One knew that she worshipped the past, and that the instinctive wisdom the past can alone bestow had descended upon her - that wisdom to which we give the clumsy name of aristocracy

I am a man, and have lived a man's past.

Quando o amor se vai, é lembrado não como amor, mas como algo diferente. Felizes são os ignorantes, pois esquecem por completo, e nunca estão conscientes da insensatez e da lascívia do passado, das longas e inúteis conversações.

Cuando el amor se desvanece se le recuerda no como amor, sino como algo distinto. Bienaventurados los ignorantes que lo olvidan por completo, y no son conscientes de los anhelos y de los absurdos del pasado, de las largas conversaciones sin propósito.

The night received her, as it had received Miss Bartlett thirty years before.

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened.

Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

I'd learned to feel nostalgia for my own youth while I was living it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,I have forgotten, and what arms have lainUnder my head till morning;

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

But you were something more than young and sweet And fair, - and the long year remembers you.

After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Just because it perished?