Quotes About Past

On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.'12 It was in an essay

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Let him join the men of the past. Her old lovers were ghosts. None of them had survived; none were missed.

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

The future is the events that will happen just as the past is the events that have happened. We cannot know the future until it becomes the past." "All right. Then what's the pattern?" "The range of possible events that may become the future. Given the past, there are only so many different directions the future can take. The landmarks in my map metaphor are those events hat have the strongest likelihood of occurring.

I could feel something slowly shredding itself within me at how innocent they were, at how little of what Malkar had done to me they would be able to comprehend, even if I were able to describe it to them. I found that I did not want to hurt them by showing them their own blindness; this was all in the past, anyway, and it would do me no good to shock them with it.

wreck that had been his sanctuary growing up. Before he could announce himself she'd turned, her hair swinging softly around her face and brushing her jaw. "Are you going

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

We are ghosts of the people we used to be. -Dickensian, TV Series (2015– ), s01e17

The traumatized person's sense of their ability to protect themselves has been damaged or destroyed. They feel endangered, even if there is no actual danger in the present, because in the past they have experienced profoundly invasive cruelty and they know it is possible.

The experience can leave one feeling drained, but also oddly wakeful and edgy, and now my mind, with nothing to anchor it, began to run over the details of the past few hours like a film on a loop.

But art is supposed to enlighten, isn't it? Not just reflect? It's to show us the best of the present modeled in the best of the past.

You know, my children," Swamiji said, "skepticism is not always healthy. We all think we are individuals, protecting ourselves against attacks from outside. But in this vast universe, we are nothing but tiny clusters of microcosms. Our problems are not unique. What has happened to you has happened to mankind countless times. If you hang on to your unique pain, you are wearing self-applied shackles. The future, my children, is nothing but the past.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

As Tom Wright describes it, Mary's Song is the "gospel before the gospel" and it "goes with a swing and a clap and a stamp." Mary's Song is an expression of gratitude for God morphing her bad reputation into a messianic vocation. But her past is even more than this unfortunate label.

William Gibson famously wrote, "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed."1 But the past is unevenly distributed in the present too.

Betrayal bleeds backward into the past, putting doubts and worries into what were once wonderful memories of connection. Betrayal is poison not just for the present, but for the past and the future too.

Two aphorisms I advocate and live by: 1) "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." (Actually, this is a common mis-quotation from the source, George Santayana, who wrote specifically in Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense from his book, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." 2) "NO religion can stand up to two words: PROVE IT!" (Source unknown).

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

Q: What is the most common remark made by old people in antique stores? A: "I remember these.

Yet all of his memories were fading like old photographs.

She had tempted them as she had tempted him, with ancient knowledge and the path to power. But that past should stay buried, and power given easily comes with a terrible price. If