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Quotes About Past

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had you—you'd be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you.
~ Sylvia Day
Until you, I didn't consider my past as an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life. Oh boy. My nose wrinkled. Hello, Mr Comfortable. I'm Miss Complicated. His grin flashed. Never a dull moment.
~ Sylvia Day
nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I'm no saint.
~ Sylvia Day
If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.
~ Sylvia Day
I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.
~ Sylvia Day
Think carefully, Gideon. I have exes in my past, too. You're setting the precedent now for how I'll handle them. I'm taking my cues from you.
~ Sylvia Day
I won't lie. I want to beat the hell out of any man who's had you—you'd be smart to keep them the hell away from me—but nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I'm no saint.
~ Sylvia Day
Whatever." I sighed inwardly at her mention of my ex, Brett Kline, who was front man for a band on the rise and one of the sexiest men I'd ever met. Like Gideon, he radiated sex appeal like a heat wave. Unlike Gideon, he wasn't the love of my life. I was never going to wade in that pool again.
~ Sylvia Day
Until you, I didn't consider my past an issue. Yes, it affected certain ways I did things, but everything had its place and I wasn't unhappy. In fact, I thought I had a comfortable and uncomplicated life.
~ Sylvia Day
If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. But the cold reasoning mass of gray entrail in my cranium which parrots, 'I think, therefore I am,' whispers that there is always the turning, the upgrade, the new slant. And so I wait.
~ Sylvia Plath
As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate - - inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.
~ Sylvia Plath
I want to be where no possessions remind me of the past and by the sea, which is for me the great healer.
~ Sylvia Plath
It was a long time ago. It doesn't matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.
~ Sylvia Plath
As an act recedes into the past and becomes imbedded in the network of one's individuality it seems more and more a product of fate – – inevitable. However, an act in the immediate present seems to be more a product of free will.
~ Sylvia Plath
God, what a life - living in the future and the past and existing merely in the present.
~ Sylvia Plath
Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time But only in time can the moment in the rose-garden, The moment in the arbour where the rain beat, The moment in the draughty church at smokefall Be remembered; involved with past and future. Only through time time is conquered.
~ T. S. Eliot
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.
~ T.S. Eliot
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
~ T.S. Eliot
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
~ T.S. Eliot
You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.
~ T.S. Eliot
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
~ T.S. Eliot
For our own past is covered by the currents of action, But the torment of others remains an experience Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition. People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
~ T.S. Eliot
And right action is freedom from past and future also. For most of us, this is the aim never to be realized. Who are only undefeated because we have gone on trying. The Dry Salvages
~ T.S. Eliot