Quotes About Past

For so much time, our history was written in bones only.

And once you've got clocks, you've got death and dead people, because time, as we know, runs on, and then it runs out, and dead people are situated outside of time, whereas living people are still immersed in it.

You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.

I collected enough fragments of the past to make a reconstruction of it, which must have borne as much relation to the real thing as a mosaic portrait would to the original.

no event is allowed into it that does not have a precedent in human history.

History isn't dry, it's sticky, it can get all over your hands.

The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Voi Scarlett, sinä olet huono valehtelemaan! Niin, elämässä on nyt loistoa - eräänlaista. Siinähän vika juuri onkin. Entisissä ajoissa ei ollut loistoa, mutta niissä oli suloa, kauneutta, hiljaista taikaa.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

Benghazi happened a long time ago.

This one time I stayed up way past my bedtime... man that was scary.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it