Quotes About Past

The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

I mentioned that one of the tripartite formulas in American worldview involves time: past, present, and future.

Lost time can never be found again

Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.

I looked around and it was like I was seeing everything frozen into a still photograph, like I was seeing my whole life but in one of those shots you look and later think, Yeah, that's what it was like, once upon a time. Once upon a time ago.

You got to live in the time you're living in. The past is the past, right

Does anyone write texts or emails as substantial or as telling as what we find in the letters of the past?

children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes its only ones.

The dominance of former communists and the insufficient discussion of the past in the post-communist world is not coincidental. To put it bluntly, former communists have a clear interest in concealing the past: it tarnishes them, undermines them, hurts their claims to be carrying out 'reforms,' even when they personally had nothing to do with the past crimes.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. Bu ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It's not the unknown past we're doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

History is amoral: events occurred. But memory is moral; what we consciously remember is what our conscience remembers.

The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened.

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

Silence settled around us. He was asleep again, and my heart was full of sorrow that he should mourn the loss of virility so keenly and above all else. We might no longer be lovers, but we were bound together by our past that stretched over well-nigh thirteen years. Even in sleep, his fingers held mine and I knew he was pleased.