Quotes About Past

Ay, every generation, every man is a part of his past. He cannot escape it, but he may reform the old materials, make something new

The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels.

What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?

Some memories are best left untouched.

there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?

We must move on, of course. There's no point in hankering after distant pleasures and lost picture palaces. But there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past? And

Those were the days of simple living. You don't see two-rupee notes any more. You don't see walking sticks either. Hardly anyone walks.

After birth, the navel remains / so you can never forget you weren't a first person, / but one humble from the past, soon / to disappear into the future. (Linda Hogan, 'Anatomy')

Aun cuando la aceptación de todas las orientaciones (retornar a un pasado previo, prolongar la situación actual, o acelerar la llegada del futuro) parezca implicar cierto cinismo o resignación hacia el mundo, la realidad es diferente.

Collecting, especially of the classifying sort epitomized by stamp collecting, offered a means to seem to gain control of the world and of the past.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.

Malicious behavior of the past, present, and future, require justice.

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

I can remember when it wasn't so lonely around here. I guess loneliness makes you remember the good times.

Hayat birbirinde ay?rd?klar?n?, k?sa bir müddet için tekrar yakla?t?r?r gibi olsa bile, uzun zaman yan yana b?rakm?yor. Geçen günleri bir daha geri getirmek mümkün de?il ve sadece hat?ralar iki insan? birbirine ba?layacak kadar kuvvetli de?il.

Right now your problem is that you suffer what happened ten years ago and you suffer what may happen the day after tomorrow.

As long as the personality is important, it simply means the previous moment is important. This present moment is not important, because the personality belongs to the past.

When a person is living moment to moment like this and doesn't carry the burden of the past with him, he is a truly sinless person. He does not carry anything with him. Being sinless doesn't mean that he did not do anything with his life. That would be being a dead person. He did everything that a person could possibly do to know life, but his actions never left any residue, nor did he build a personality out of the actions he performed.

So the source of your misery is not your past actions. The source of your misery is how you're processing the imprint of the past now.

The past, present and future are not three different places, they are a single happening, here and now. When you live this moment profoundly, you experience time not serially but simultaneously not as three , but one. You then wake up to the fact that mystics have known since the dawn of time, that this moment is eternity.

all that you call your past exists only as memory… all that you call future exits only as imagination… these are the only two things that you are suffering right now: your memory and your imagination. Nothing more. Both memory and imagination exist only in your mind. They are aspects of your psychological reality; they have nothing to do with the existential reality.