Quotes About Past

El futuro nos tortura y el pasado nos encadena. He ahí por qué se nos escapa el presente.

GeçmiÅŸ beni çekiyor, bugün ise korkutuyor; çünkü gelecek ölü. Olan bitene özlem duyuyor, yaÅŸananlar için aÄŸl?yorum. Zaman?, saati durdurmak istiyorum; ancak zaman geçiyor, ak?p gidiyor, yar?n?n boÅŸluÄŸunu doldurmak için her saniye benden çal?yor ve ben bir kez daha hayata gelmeyeceÄŸim.

El verdadero miedo es como una reminiscencia de los terrores fantásticos de antaño. Un

You carried the past into the future on your back, its knees and arms hugging you tighter with every step.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of original art and background in bits of detail here and there - a worn flight of steps, a wormy pair of decorative columns of pilasters, or a fragment of once green space with bent and rusted iron railing.

all which is forgotten need not necessarily be dead

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.

Slumber, watcher, till the spheres Six and twenty thousand years Have revolv'd, and I return To the spot where now I burn. Other stars anon shall rise To the axis of the skies; Stars that soothe and stars that bless With a sweet forgetfulness: Only when my round is o'er Shall the past disturb thy door.

The strange things of the past which I learnt during those nocturnal meetings with the dead he dismisses as the fruits of my lifelong and omnivorous browsing amongst the ancient volumes of the family library. Had it not been for my old servant Hiram, I should have by this time become quite convinced of my madness. But

History had led me to this archaic grave. History, indeed, was all I had after everything else ended in mocking Satanism.

A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.

Awestruck at this unexpected glimpse into a past beyond the conception of the most daring anthropologist, I stood musing whilst the moon cast queer reflections on the silent channel before me.

Eine Stimme aus anderen Zeiten gehört in einen Friedhof anderer Zeiten.

Like you, she will have been with other people, but I've got a feeling there's something between you.

You know, when you end a relationship and say you fell out of love, you actually mean you were never really in love. The past is a river, not a statue.

Nos aferramos al pasado -dijo-, a lo antiguo, porque tenemos miedo. [...] Nuestras vidas se estancan, se vuelven rancias. Nos da miedo todo lo nuevo, todo cuanto podría ayudarnos a crecer, a cambiar.

Man, who has not been granted the gift of undoing, who is always an un-consulted heir of other men's deeds, and who is always burdened with a responsibility that appears to be the consequence of an unending chain of events rather than conscious acts, demands an explanation and interpretation of the past in which the mysterious key to his future destiny seems to be concealed.

Not only does the actual meaning of every event always transcend any number of past causes which we may assign to it, this past itself comes into being only with the event itself.

Augustine arrives at "the camps and vast palaces of memory."11 There he finds the notion of the "happy life," which is his origin and as such the quintessence of his being. The absolute future turns out to be the ultimate past and the way to reach it is through remembrance.

the undeniable loss of tradition in the world does not at all entail a loss of the past, for tradition and past are not the same, as the believers in tradition on one side and the believers in progress on the other would have us believe. . . .

Sofern Vergangenheit als Tradition überliefert ist, hat sie Autorität; sofern Autorität sich geschichtlich darstellt, wird sie zur Tradition. Walter Benjamin wusste, dass Traditionsbruch und Autoritätsverlust irreperabel waren, und zog daraus den Schluss, neue Wege für den Umgang mit der Vergangenheit zu suchen.

But the past is like a shadow, always trying to catch up.

Watch out for people who belong in your past. Don't let 'em back in your life.