Quotes About Past

They ought to have looked forward meekly to the prodigious feats of posterity; but having too little faith and too much conceit, they were content to look behind and make comparisons with the past. They did not foresee the miraculous generation which is us.

Good art cannot be defined. There is only great art that creates new ideas and then there are imitations of varying degrees. There is no best way or only way. We learn from the past, in order to understand the present. The past is our foundation, the springboard into the future. Tradition and past ideas are important bases to begin with, but can be traps if misunderstood.

Geluk werd tegenwoordige tijd en geluk dat tegenwoordige tijd is geworden is angstaanjagend geluk, geluk in de verleden tijd of in de toekomende tijd is stukken draaglijker.

Alles wat je loslaat, alles wat van je wordt afgenomen maakt - doordat je het loslaat, doordat het van je wordt afgenomen - ruimte voor iets nieuws, misschien zelfs iets beters. De melancholie berust dikwijls op een verheerlijking van het verleden die dat verleden helemaal niet verdient. Alleen omdat we het verleden betrekkelijk goed kennen, omdat het ons zo vertrouwd voorkomt, denken we dat we daar thuishoren.

The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of all living men.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. He

The future is built on the rubbish of the past; wisdom lies in facing that fact, not in fighting against it.

If the present is shitty and the future is worse, the past is all you've got

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope towards a future.

regrets he felt were less for his deceits than for his past indifference.

The date stamp, she noted, showed 4 B.C.

These relics have a history then?' 'So much so that they are history.

There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.

En nuestro pasado reside nuestro futuro. Nuestras decisiones y nuestros actos condicionan ese futuro y nos traen alegría o la desgracia, Hagan lo que hagan, esfuércense por conseguir sus metas. Tal vez nunca logren su objetivo, incluso puede que este sea un espejismo, pero a lo largo del camino encontrarán gente que se convertirá en piezas importantes de sus vidas y crearán recuerdos que les ayudarán a seguir adelante en los tiempos difíciles. (Tory)

The wind blows hard among the pines Toward the beginning Of an endless past. Listen: you've heard everything.

The universal odour of bookshop, closed all night on the mildews of its ranked treasures, brought a past life before him - as is said to happen in drowning. But how, he wondered, entering and taking up a book, and even breathing it in to sustain remembrance, could one ever verify or explode the myth, except by drowning.

Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. The way you did before? she asked. It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years. Yes, I said after a minute, the way I did before.

Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were waiting for us, sitting around the dining-room table waiting for Constance to bring them their dinner.

Time goes from present to past.

The future was clay, to be moulded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

The voices would not stop. They were a torment, Her past became a kaleidoscope of shifting images that kept racing through her mind.