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Quotes About Past

My name is Might-have-been;I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
~ Dante, The Divine Comedy
But I treasure those nightmares. They're the only thing that's left of my life from before.
~ Dany Laferrière
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
~ Daphne du Maurier
Holding on is believing that there's only a past; letting go is knowing that there's a future.
~ Daphne Rose Kingma
Meanwhile, every corner of this city is laced with memories of us together.
~ Daria Snadowsky
Pain was my tie to a past that a part of me wanted to hold on to. The more I hurt, the more I knew I loved, and that felt like a good thing.
~ Daria Snadowsky
One of the pitfalls of having an ex-boyfriend is that people still pair you together in their memories, and sooner or later someone's bound to mention him. And now that it has happened . . . I can't say I feel nothing. I don't think it's possible to get royally dumped by the only boy I've ever done it with, let alone loved, and then feel nothing when he's brought up in conversation.
~ Daria Snadowsky
questo passato inimitabile che è l'infanzia di un poeta e di una poesia.
~ Dario Bellezza
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
~ Dave Eggers
Ono što je jednom ispri?ano ne može nikada više da se ponovi. Ono što se jednom desilo, desilo se zauvek.
~ David Albahari
Sa prošloš?u, me?utim, ?ovek nikada ne sme da bude siguran. Ona nije, ube?en sam, tako nepromenljiva kao što se ?esto ?uje, ve? se rado, mada u krajnje svedenom obliku, menja i tako uti?e na ne?iju sadašnjost i budu?nost.
~ David Albahari
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
~ David Antin
It is the future that we are more likely to think of immediately when the idea of progress is brought up," says Robert Nisbet, "but it was only when men became conscious of a long past . . . that a consciousness of progressive movement from past to present became possible" (History of the Idea of Progress, New York, 1980, p. 323).
~ James B. Stockdale
Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.
~ James Blunt
It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.
~ James Branch Cabell
reasons, Edith Stein is the saint who, instead of advancing Jewish-Christian relations, impedes them. Until the Church accomplishes a complete reckoning with a past that reaches far beyond the Holocaust, Edith Stein, instead of blessing the Church, will haunt it.
~ James Carroll
Want a fast track to success, Forget the big picture and instead focus on all the small pictures in your journey from past and present then build a Collage Only then will you have the big picture of success for your life to shoot for
~ James D Wilson
But you need to understand your history. What got us here, why we're in this mess. You'll never figure out where you're going until you understand from where you came.
~ James Dashner
Though the window to his past was caked with grime, revealing little more than splotchy glimpses, he knew he'd worked with WICKED.
~ James Dashner
If everything they'd been insisting was true was in fact true, he didn't want to face his past even if he could.
~ James Dashner
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
~ James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
As in all experiences, we have a choice. We can greet them as a God or a victim. We can learn by them and heal the past, putting what is in the highest and best good for the people and the planet as first and foremost on our agenda.
~ James Gilliland