Quotes About Past

Alt werden heisst nichts anderes, als keine Angst mehr haben vor der Vergangenheit.

YaÅŸad?klar?n?n bir düÅŸ olduÄŸunu hissetti yaln?zca; mutluluk ya da mutsuzluk, insanlar ya da yaln?zl?k, geçmiÅŸ ya da gelecek bir düÅŸtü.

la escritura, que ha evolucionado desde los pliegos más sencillos, pasando por los rollos, hasta culminar en el libro, ha puesto fin al trágico confinamiento de las vivencias y de la experiencia en el alma individual: desde que existe el libro nadie está ya completamente solo, sin otra perspectiva que la que le ofrece su propio punto de vista, pues tiene al alcance de su mano el presente y el pasado, el pensar y el sentir de toda la humanidad.

Vieillir ne signifie assurément rien de plus que de n'avoir plus peur de son passé

Iss?z bir parkta karlar içinde Ar?yor geçmiÅŸi iki gölge.

Envelhecer é apenas não ter mais medo do passado

La mia solitudine è dignitosa, la affronto a testa alta, ma se la guardo in faccia mi deride, mi ferisce fa ritornare tutte le solitudini del passato. E' così: ogni solitudine contiene tutte le solitudini vissute.

languidly.The party had now reached Stage Five, or Regrets For a Mis-Spent Past; this would be followed by Stage Six, the Belligerent, and Stage Seven, the Amorous or Final.

You need what I call the Gentle Powers.' 'Oh, please tell me what they are!' 'Beauty, and Time, and the Past and Pity (their names sound like a band of angels, don't they?) Laughter, too – you need calming and lifting into the light, not plunging into darkness and struggle.' She

The landscape artist had captured a distant prospect of an ancient hillside, surmounted by cyprus and a few tumbled columns; the mood was one of desolation and peace, a glorious past recalled, and now thankfully put to rest.

El pasado no se marcha del todo, sino que persiste. Se puede hasta tocar y ver sus restos; y en el medida en que perviven los recuerdos, el pasado es presente. No se puede decir lo mismo del futuro. No está presente de ninguna forma. Puede ser, pero aún no ha llegado. Cuando llega es el presente, pero sólo de manera efímera, hasta convertirse en el pasado. El futuro nunca se puede agarrar con las manos.

Nostalgia is best cured via horse whipping.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

. . . the mind is desperate to fix the river {of events} in place: Possessed by ideas of the past, preoccupied with images of the future, it overlooks the plain truth of the moment.

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.

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

The truth is that everybody has a past and everybody has an ex.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.