Quotes About Past

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

These examples both demonstrate that the laws of physics, notably Newton's laws, are time-reversible. They work just as well backwards in time as forwards, and there is no place in them for the second law of thermodynamics. The fundamental laws of physics do not distinguish between past and future.

I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.

The past itself is not a narrative. In its entirety, it is as chaotic, uncoordinated, and complex as life. History is about making sense of that mess, finding or creating patterns and meanings and stories from the maelstrom.

If scientists could point to the fabulous interconnections of the natural world, historians should try to understand the past in a similarly intricate fashion.

history is to society what memory is to the individual.

The seven extra years that Jacob had to serve Laban appear as a repayment for his treatment of Esau. His past had caught up with him, and he had to accept the results and serve Laban seven more years.

Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.

The principal aim of this book has been to reveal something of the complexity of the relationship between science and religion as they have interacted in the past. Popular generalizations about that relationship, whether couched in terms of war or peace, simply do not stand up to serious investigation. There is no such thing as the relationship between science and religion.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and carrying its curse forever into the future--

One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

Cuando puede que conocer el pasado fuera una forma mucho mejor de anticipar el futuro.

El pasado es una confusión fugitiva de recuerdos peligrosos y dolorosos. ¿Por qué iba a querer regresar?

Un hombre sin pasado puede forjar cualquier futuro»

Cuando se tiene la edad que tengo yo, todo trae recuerdos. Uno pasa más tiempo mirando hacia atrás que hacia delante.

Una cosa es enfrentarse con el pasado de uno mismo. Pero otra totalmente distinta es ver lo que ha sido, y lo que significa, y utilizarlo después para construir un futuro mejor.

Cerré los ojos al recordar. No estaba seguro de si estaba ocurriendo en el pasado o en el presente, en el hospital o en mi apartamento. Lo estaba evocando todo, esa noche y aquella noche, que eran la misma.

La gente intenta siempre revivir momentos que en su memoria son mejores de lo que fueron en realidad, evocar emociones que, en realidad, es mejor que permanezcan en el pasado

And they are gone: aye, ages long agoThese lovers fled away into the storm.

The past is a foreign country, and we're only tourists. We can't expect to understand the locals, or why they do what they do.