Quotes About Past

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

The work of memory collapses time.

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

Lent is rather seeing how to take steps into God's future so that we are no longer defined by what is past and no longer distracted by what we have treasured or feared about the present. Lent is for embracing the baby given to old people; resurrection to new life in Easter; and the offer of a new world made by God from nothing.

Poor Jim JayGot stuck fastIn Yesterday.

There is only the single imperative, Survive this Moment. The past scarcely matters; the future will be dealt with, instant by instant, as it arrives. Each tick of the clock, a new burden, a new application of the imperative.

Aber was interessiert mich der Schnee von morgen? Ich bin mit der Bewältigung und Vergangenheit so gut ausgelastet, dass ich nicht auch noch wissen muss, was mir in der Zukunft blüht.

Zweifel?" rief das Ungeheuer. "Wir reden hier nicht von gesunder Skepsis, mein junger Freund! Nein, ich zweifelte nicht - ich sorgte mich, und das ist ein Unterschied wie... wie zwischen denken und träumen. Ich fing an, mir um alles Gedanken zu machen - um restlos alles! Ich kann mir Sorgen um die Gesundheit machen, um die Zukunft, um die Gegenwart - sogar um die Vergangenheit, was eine besonders sinnlose Variante ist.

Once things have passed and become irretrievable, we tend to see them with a hazy, golden glow.

futuro está almacenado en el pasado.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Cualquier creación artística es hija de su tiempo y, la mayoría de las veces, madre de nuestros propios sentimientos. Igualmente, cada periodo cultural produce un arte que le es propio y que no puede repetirse. Pretender revivir principios artísticos del pasado puede dar como resultado, en el mejor de los casos, obras de arte que sean como un niño muerto antes de nacer. Por ejemplo, es totalmente imposible sentir y vivir interiormente como lo hacían los antiguos griegos.

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They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.

The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive. But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.

Things change. People change. You make some choices you can never take back...The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive...But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.

The thing already looks like its best days were decades ago.

The Flasher of '04.

The future is all possibilities, but the past is set in stone. All those ghosts of ourselves, our youth, still alive inside us, but out of our reach forever. We meet them when we close our eyes, when we let our memories come alive." He shakes his head. "But that's all they are. Memories. No more real than a dream.

Sadness and Happiness is a comparison between your fleeting momentary choices between past and future, modern and ancient."

The past is behind us because the future is moving forward.

There are no memories in a bottle full of wine.