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Quotes About Past

I am not all she devil. A she devil has no memory of the past - she is born afresh every morning. She deals with the feelings of today, not yesterday, and she is free. There is a little bit of me left, still woman.
~ Fay Weldon
You must read, Alice, before it's too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better.
~ Fay Weldon
No," Decker said. "Ask God for forgiveness, Akiva," Schulman said. "Hakodosh Boroch Hu is the only one who can give you solace. I've told you that before." He stood up, motioned Decker to do the same thing. The old man embraced him tightly, then looked him in the eye. Still holding him, he said, "Then, my boy, have the courage to forgive yourself." He broke away. "Enough of the past. Let's learn a little Talmud.
~ Faye Kellerman
Pero una cosa es lo que uno quiere y otra cosa lo que uno puede , la vida es así. O por lo menos así es la mia y así este libro, proyecto disparatado. El presente se entremete en el pasado y el pasado no deja vivir. Y el futuro enterito se lo regalo. La vida enciende ilusiones y las apaga.
~ Fernando Vallejo
Borra, borra en tu memoria, vuelve a la tabula rasa de la infancia, llénate de futuro, despójate de pasado y ten presente que: el río no corre en reversa. Entre fantasmas, Fernando Vallejo
~ Fernando Vallejo
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
~ Flannery O' Connor
Our minds are a series of graves in a wall. Our non-entities are all there when the register is called, gluttonous creatures; sometimes they fly up like vultures to hide the faces of those we loved. A multitude of faces dwell in the graves, a rich pasturage.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
Ik laat de nabije zaken met liefde gaan om achteruit te rennen, naar al uitgedoofde tijden.
~ Fleur Jaeggy
Will there never be an end that also has a beginning? Will there never be continuity bridging the awful void between now and some other time, a time in the future, a time in the past?
~ Flora Rheta Schreiber
The singers were rude and untaught and poor beyond modern imagining; but they deserve to be remembered, for they knew the now lost secret of being happy on little.
~ Flora Thompson
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
~ Florence King
L'amour est fini quand il n'est plus possible de revenir en arrière.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Alt?dat? aveai prea mul?i amici ?i acum nu mai ai deloc. Asta vrea s? însemne c? nu i-ai avut niciodat?" - 29,99 RON
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
No sé lo que me reserva el pasado (como diría Sagan), pero sigo avanzando, en el maravillado terror, porque no tengo otra elección, avanzo, menos despreocupado que otras veces, pero avanzo de todos modos, avanzo a pesar de todo, avanzo y os juro que resulta hermoso.
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
By the time dusk fell, he was back in his room. The last of the daylight lay like fine ashes on the roof-tops. He did not light his lamp, but sat by the fireplace in the dark, seeking in the far distance of his past some vague memory of a love-affair, some recollection of a friendship, with which to soften the hard tyranny of isolation.
~ Francois Mauriac
The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
~ Francois Fenelon
Music is a very good way of thinking about time. A note only moves you because you remember the one before, and you're waiting for the next . . . Each one only means something wrapped in a bit of the past and the future.
~ Francois Lelord
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
~ Francois Villon
A parlare di sé, c'è il rischio di non finire più. So bene di aver dimenticato questo, quello e quell'altro ancora. È importante? Difficile sapere cosa sia davvero importante. La cosa migliore è decidere che la terapia fatta sul passato finisce oggi, e che è venuto il momento di prendere un biglietto per il futuro.
~ Françoise Giroud
The past was all around her. She could smell it. It did not feel dead. It felt alive, and as curious about her as she was about it.
~ Frances Hardinge
Her past was getting away from her.
~ Frances Hardinge
El pasado está por todas partes, pero no lo vemos. Por eso no logramos deshacernos de él fácilmente. Somos como una nave inmovilizada por un ancla que se aferra a las profundidades. Lo que no significa que no seamos capaces de arrancarla y proseguir nuestro rumbo.
~ Francesc Miralles
No hay tiempo para el presente. Vamos del pasado al futuro, que nuevamente se vuelve pasado: ¡ así es la vida!
~ Francesc Miralles
Ours may be the heritage of the withheld promises. We have been blessed through the endurance and faithfulness of those who have suffered in the past; the people around us, or those who will succeed us, may be blessed through our trials and suffering and how we react to them.
~ Billy Graham