Quotes About Past

I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Would Edith ever be like that, a mere custodian of the past? If she did, he thought, she would be false to the very traditions she tried to preserve. For her forefathers had never been mere guardians of things gone by. Always they had been pioneers. That house had not been old to them, but a thrilling new adventure.

Todos vosotros conocéis la profunda melancolía que nos sobrecoge al recordar los tiempos felices. Esos tiempos que se han alejado para no volver más y de los cuales estamos más implacablemente separados que por cualquier distancia. Y las imágenes de la vida son más seductoras todavía vistas en el reflejo que nos dejan, y pensamos en ellas como en el cuerpo de una amada difunta que reposara bajo tierra y que de pronto se nos apareciera, como un luminoso espejismo...

For dangers past—an old soldier's laugh. For those to come—a full glass, though death and the devil grin there, as long as the wine was good.

Cualquiera que sea el campo de batalla o la posición perdida sobre la que se halle, allí donde se conserva un pasado y se debe combatir por un futuro, no hay acción que esté perdida

There are eras of decline in which the form our inner life is destined to take becomes blurred. In these periods, we stagger this way and that like creatures who have lost their balance. We sink from hollow joys into dull sorrow, and a pervasive sense of loss lends the future and the past a more alluring air. And so we maunder through remote pasts or distant utopias while the present moment vanishes.

Che me ne faccio delle girandole dei verbi? Non sono il padrone del tempo, sono il suo asino. Va bene per gli scrittori il passato e il suo ceraunavolta. E il futuro a comodo agli indovini che si arricchiscono coi pronostici. Io conosco le vite che durano un giorno e arrivare a notte è già morire vecchi.

They conjure up the retrospective vision of an unsurpassable happiness, enjoyed in the past, unattainable every after, yet enduringly alive in the memory: a bygone happiness ended by death; and not, as George III's paraphrase implies, a present happiness menaced by death.

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.

Your past is irrelevant. You cannot evaluate your future experience by your past, because what is taking place in this moment is a new awareness, a new ingredient that will be added to your pie, that will change the outcome of your future so dramatically, that your past really has no relevancy.

We are all exiles from our past , and, as such, we need to recapture it.

Our mind is conditioned by the past, and to try to alter what we are feeling right now, especially in the name of being a compassionate spiritual person, is just wishful thinking. This is a crucial realization, because we spend so much of life, and, sadly, so much of our spiritual paths, wishing we were feeling something other than what we are actually feeling in the present moment.

Anders gestel, Ian: Wat is die afsnypunt van historiese skuld? Uit hoe ver terug mag ons die wandade van voorgeslagte byroep om die huidige geslag mee te blameer? "Ek

Elizabeth kyk meewarig na hom. "Ons het nie 'n hede in hierdie land nie, Ian. "Ons het net 'n onafgehandelde verlede. En dáárvan is jy die beste voorbeeld wat ek ken.

Psalm 132 cultivates a hope that gives wings to obedience, a hope that is consistent with the reality of what God has done in the past but is not

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

The past is every second of your life up until now. Up until NOW. See how quickly the present is gobbled up by the past? The present is... Sorry, it's already gone. Hmm, it was just there a minute ago.

Instead of healing the past with words, he and Helen had reached a point where words were suddenly too dangerous to be used.

Not only was Feenah—whoever she was—Sylvan's ex, she was also his childhood sweetheart! How could she compete with that? You're not supposed to be competing, she reminded herself sternly. He's foresworn himself of you, remember? But the thought didn't make her feel one bit better. In fact, she felt worse. "Uh-huh.

My personal belief is that there's not much value in showing things from the past that have no relevance to today or failing to connect some kind of dotted line to where we are today, because otherwise, it just becomes homework.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.