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Quotes About Past

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.
~ D. H. Lawrence
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.[only if the past was better...if it was worse then you feel good that life is getting better]
~ Douglas Horton
Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.
~ Edward R. Murrow
Very early in my life it was already too late.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.
~ Evo Morales
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
~ Frank McCourt
I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.
~ Mitch Albom
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
~ Nadine Gordimer
If there is a next life, I hope it's in the past; I don't think the future will be any more handleable. I think it's a little harsh how the END button is red.
~ Ned Vizzini
There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.
~ Nicholas Meyer
Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
~ Patricia Hampl
I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
~ Patricia Velasquez
Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That girl--all of them--hated Eleanor before they'd even laid eyes on her. Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life.
~ Rainbow Rowell
I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.
~ Rob Thurman
I feel like I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.
~ Rumer Willis
Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
~ Sam Taylor-Wood
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
~ Sarah Dessen
Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
~ Seneca the Younger
Life is messy, Ren. It's not easy and it's definitely not for the timid. Everyone has a past.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.
~ Sophie Swetchine