Quotes About Past

And drawers started opening in my brain, drawers I hadn't opened in years, and I was slamming them shut again but bits of memory kept coming, a voice here, a scream there.

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

One of the cruelest crimes of patriarchy has been to teach us to project our thoughts into a future that will never come (getting together our vitae and our five-year-plans) or focusing us back into a past that is only memories of a present, keeping us unaware of the locus of our power in the present moment and effectively imprisoning us in time.

Funny how memories come back - sometimes in dribs and drabs, sometimes in enormous sweeps.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

Chastisement for errors past Wisdom brings to age at last.

Rose the joint evil that is now o'erflowing. And the old happiness in that past day Was truly happy, but the present hour Hath pain, crime, ruin:—whatsoe'er of ill Mankind have named, not one is absent here.

Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.

But this material offered more than variety of dramatic incident. These myths were the only national memory of the remote past, of a time before the Greeks invented the alphabet, so that, shifting and changing though they might be, they had the authority, for the audience, of what we call history.

You Cannot Change The Past, But You Can Learn From It. When The Same Situation Arises, You Can Do Things Differently And Become Happier And More Effective and Successful Today.

Think of your husband as a lover from a previous life, and wonder what you did to deserve him.

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my past was my life.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

Looking at old photographs inundates you with a flood of nostalgic emotions! And you can't be sure where you want to swim in the deluge of memories!

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of ancestors' by the records of history?

Retrospect: the sweetener of life.

The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.

... ancient days of sorrowancient days of pain-heartaches of the pastslowly began to wane ...(from gleaning granules)

My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.