Quotes About Past

a battle-scarred veteran, bowed with age, would begin to remember the martial deeds of his youth and prime and be overcome as the past welled up in his wintry heart.

The ancient Greeks, according to Pirsig, "saw the future as something that came upon them from behind their backs, with the past receding away before their eyes.

The punch line is that our notion of free will, the ability to change the future by making choices in a way that is not available to us as far as the past is concerned, is only possible because the past has a low entropy and the future has a high entropy. The

My memories are not of time but of times.

I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.

It struck me then how much the past - not just the past but history and family - was like the ocean tide. It was always the same ocean, but the waves made it fresh and new each time.

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.

Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments.

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

One of the real dangers of our time is people's indifference to history.

I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.