Quotes About Past

If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.

I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God.

I'm a history nut.

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along

Son, can you play me a memory. I'm not really sure how it goes. It was sad and it was sweet and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.

We discussed the present, but what we really meant was our past. Both of us were living among the living, yet we didn't really belong with them- we were actually the dead, on stolen leave, accidental survivors who got left behind in life.

If Saturn's son, and changeful Fate, assigned A double life-time to our mortal kind, That one in joys and one in woes be past, Who had his woes first would have joys at last.

We do not ask to forget; we do not want the so-called consolations which time brings. Such an insult to the past, as forgetfulness would be, means that we have not risen to the possibilities of communion of spirit afforded us in the present.

Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

The future for me is already a thing of the past - You were my first love and you will be my last

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

In this great future, you canít forget your past

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

Bobbie Ann Mason

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.

I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.

He could not turn back the clock a second, nor could he ever push it forward a second, so that what happened had to happen.

We all have a past. We all have a future. But all we really have is right now. You can change your destiny in one moment, if only you refuse to do what you once did.

The past is not a place I like to visit. This project is forcing me to go there, to tidy up my thoughts. I'm not normally a navel-gazer. I've always thought you find yourself in other people. I'm visiting here. I don't want to set up house.

As they say, out with one eye for remembering the past, but if you forget, out with both. And