Quotes About Past

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return.

The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?

It is a grave objection to our existing Parliamentary constitution that it gives much power to regions of past greatness, and refuses equal power to regions of present greatness.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Nakajima's past would always be there, so the foundation could crumble at any moment. That's what happens, I realized, when people destroy other people.

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht.

D'un tratto capii quanto fosse lontano il passato. Anche più della morte, anche più della distanza incolmabile tra persona e persona.

Nessuno degli amori che avevo avuto fino ad allora aveva mai cancellato in questo modo il paesaggio.

the familiar and nostalgic colors and smells, tastes, and places in our memories.

The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of a world at dusk. It was a daness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the past. The sorrow of the battlefield could not normally be pinpointed to one particular event, or even one person. If you focused on any one event it would soon become a tearing pain.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Is it?" I asked. "The past, over and done? Is it ever?" "Ever changed? No. Ever accepted? Yes. It becomes who you are. That doesn't have to be a bad thing.

It's better to be rid of them than to have to fight off unpleasant memories.

It's funny how life goes merrily along and then, boom, the past comes back and bites you in the butt.

history but to experience it, to feel the heavy, haunting atmosphere at a century-old site, to dig for something real, something from the past, something that could change what they knew of history. Discovery was an addicting thrill

Maybe we both need to realize that we're giving our families and our pasts too much power over us.

The sky sinks slowly inside the past.

When you carry pain and do not release and let go of the past, your body will faithfully show you the results of your repressed feelings. Just as facing your fears is the best way to overcome them, you can also deal with your deepest feelings by acknowledging their existence.

as their tongues met, Will knew he'd made a serious mistake. Fifteen years hadn't been enough to make him forget, and now, he had nowhere to run.

Like this cemetery, she was old and dry and what she had once been or even later represented had begun to slip from memory.

It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.