Quotes About Past

Survival, though, means more than going on. It means understanding the past and finding a way to subdue it, to reconcile it, to overcome it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The greater problems of history are not solved; they are merely forgotten.

liturgical memorial brings the past and present together, making the long-ago event mystically present for the current generation.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

The Past is a strange land, most strange. Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall: If they do, they cannot hurt at all.

Some of our people that are dead took the original of their death here.

Excessive record-keeping is a symptom of insecurity and defensive thinking. It indicates that you are less concerned attaining objectives than you are with documentation, and that your thinking is oriented to the past, not the present.

History is your ancestors' outcome of the past; celebrate or compensate.

The time never comes back; however, memories stay in mind forever.

The time never comes back; however, the memories stay in mind forever.

Legends that endure in the future...were events that took place in the distant past.

Shijun, we can't go back.

The moon of thirty years ago has gone down long since and the people of thirty years ago are dead but the story of thirty years ago is not yet ended—can have no ending.

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

Enlighten your life with history.

What's the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it's over.

Time is only the river of memory.

The French are obsessed with history, partly out of a genuine affinity for the past, partly from a desire to cling to lost glory.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

the thing we call French culture may be due to the fact that French children can play, surrounded by the things of the past, palaces of bygone kings, statues, remembrances of history.

The more the world speeds up the more it seems necessary that we should learn to pick out of the past the things that we feel were important and beautiful then. One of these things was a quality of tranquillity in people, which you rarely meet today.

It was really true, there was no longer anything about him that could interest me. He wasn't even a fragment of the past, he was only a stain, like the print of a hand left years ago on a wall.

So afterward, when you no longer love him, it bothers you just to think that you once wanted him.