Quotes About Past

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it — the present, that is to say, must have become the past — before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.

It was the contrast that fascinated Mac as much as anything else. Knowing that both the wilderness and civilization were available to the nth degree, he was completely happy. I have found it is the same with many men; being able to live in the present and also in the past gives them a sense of completeness that they can get in no other way.

When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf break the circle the past and the future will meet. The sun of a new Summer will shine in the sky.

When the last dragon and the last elf break the circle, the past and the future will meet, and the sun of a new summer will shine in the sky. (The last Elf)

Creo que esa falta esencial de recuerdos, en mi caso, no provenía de una falta de memoria: creo que mi pensamiento, ocupado en adivinar el futuro, tan lleno de imágenes, no podía demorarse en el pasado.

Our history has nothing to do with our destiny.

But nostalgia was the first disease associated with time, its victims longing for days gone by.7

Conserving national resources was a sensible wish; it became a prescient necessity when the US entered the war six years later. But the desire to make the country great again may have appeared a tired political slogan even then. The belief of a better past is clearly a compelling one, but whether the past was better in the days of Taylor and Roosevelt in 1911 or in the mind of Donald Trump in 2016 is difficult to say.

Nostalgia for old fictions is the strongest nostalgia of all.

It was years since I'd last been here, a lifetime. It was yesterday.

The past is what we make of it, if we know what's is good for us.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present.

Los hombres hacen su propia historia, pero no la hacen a capricho; no la hacen en las circunstancias que ellos mismos eligen, sino en unas circunstancias que ya existen, dadas y transmitidas por el pasado».

Marx wrote that 'History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.' This was witty but far from true. History is never repeated, but it borrows, steals, echoes and commandeers the past to create a hybrid, something unique out of the ingredients of past and present. No

For most of history – the next eight and a half millennia – life expectancy was around thirty.

True, I can fly at Mach-50 without effort and emit regenerative energy when I touch my brother, but mostly that's behind me.

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As

I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost.

He stood at a tilt as though tethered to some terrible weight - some moment of his past that simultaneously defined who he was yet denied him life.

My history defines who I am.

The place had a kind of mistery, as if, in some long distant past, it had been inhabited by men who knew how to rejoice in rivers, trees, and sky.

Looking back in retrospect and regretting your past, you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Sometimes we hope for what we left behind.