Quotes About Past

Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.

The past was an empty space, a blurry movie in which they had played the parts, on their own, of other people they'd forgotten.

Es en verdad curioso —dije— cómo la memoria es el último superviviente del naufragio de nuestra existencia, cómo el pasado destila estalactitas en el vacío de nuestra ejecutoria, cómo la empalizada de nuestras certezas se abate ante la leve brisa de una nostalgia.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

In the laws which regulate the Universe it is decreed that nothing wicked can long endure. Be wise, and let history warn thee. Thou standest on the verge of two worlds, — the Past and the Future; and voices from either shriek omen in thy ear. I have done. I bid thee farewell.

If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

My days are past.

Our joys as winged dreams do fly;Why then should sorrow last?Since grief but aggravates thy loss,Grieve not for what is past.

What is past I know, but what is for to come I know not.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

The exceptional status of each human being derives from the unique significance of suffering and flourishing in the context of our remembrances of the past and of the memories we have constructed of the future we incessantly anticipate.

Que diferença de Lisboa. Não se pode viver numa cidade sem passado.»

The peak-end effect described by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky could contribute as well. We would be prone to creating strong memories for the more rewarding aspects of a past scene and obscure the rest. Memory is imperfect.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength. It is this which is under attack. Moderates are not moderate through weakness but through strength. Now is the time to show it in defence of our common values.

Neuroti?ar je osoba koja brine zbog ne?ega što se nije dogodilo u prošlosti. On nije kao mi, normalni ljudi, koji brinemo zbog ne?ega što se ne?e dogoditi u budu?nosti.

In the past, regretting past mistakes, feeling guilty about past sins, gloating over past achievements, resenting past injuries caused them by other people.

What use are memories when memories can do little more than fade?

a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary. Winkler was still on an airplane, hurtling north, but he was also pushing farther back, sinking deeper into the overlaps, to the years before he even had a daughter, before he had even dreamed of the woman who would become his wife.