Quotes About Past

Any time gone by was better.

Past time is finite, future time is infinite.

Time is the metre, memory the only plot.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.

Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

When you're in a good mood, bring up the past. When you're in a bad mood, stick to the present. And when you're not feeling emotional at all, it's time to talk about the future.

Once upon a time is now.

Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face. The past, she is haunted, the future is laced.

History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.