Quotes About Past

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

He hath shook hands with time.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

I like to spend time in the past, with the things that have been important to me.

Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present.

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

My expectations for the future? A beautiful past.

Every past used to be a future once upon a time

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time futureAnd time future contained in time past.

The event of history is hidden in time.

History displays the events of time.

The present is a point just passed.

Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.

There was a beautiful time...

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.

If Time travel were possible, the future would have already taught the present to teach the past how to do it.

The past only dies so the future can live.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

Time becomes meaningless without memory and we humans have a unique consciousness that allows us to live in the past or the future, which is actually more of a curse than a useful superpower.