Quotes About Past

Forgotten memories surfaced like the ghosts of the dead (...)

He had never come back to anything. The past was never his concern.

All those hours spent reading the Druid Histories. Just ancient legends and useless information from times dead and gone, the other Druids had scoffed. Nothing there will help you with the present. Studying the world around you is all that matters. There is nothing to be learned by studying what's over and done with. Except that those who fail to pay attention to the past are doomed to repeat it.

was a long time ago, Sider, and now it's just old stories. We live in the here and now, not the past. But the present's not so good, either.

Change comes in the form of repetition. We are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, and no amount of education gleaned from our propensity for self-destruction and misguided thinking ever teaches us anything.

The trick is to keep cutting the present off from the past. In this way, you can try to deny the fact that the past is what we are made of, and that there would be no present without it. One of the several problems with this way of living is that it is not clear how what is reborn every moment can be said to be you. Personal identity involves a degree of continuity.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.

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Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.

Too long we have lived looking to the past and not to the future! Too long we have chased old ghosts and been blind to new callings! Too long we have listened to those who would seek to drag us into war and ignored those who would guide us on a path to peace!

But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.

But the past is past, and we must now go on with what must be done. The prophecies say that the greatest danger now lies before us.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

In short, what people think they want is news, but what they really crave is olds.

Things were simpler then. And also very, very stupid.

this is the room where the future pours into the past via the pinch of now.

Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.

He isn't looking at the view because his past life keeps flashing in front of his eyes and getting in the way

Rincewind had in any case seen his past life flash in front of his eyes so many times that he could sleep through the boring bits.

But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.

What's done cannot be undone. Lady Macbeth's

A lifetime's worth of memories atomized.

Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.

In many cases where one is content to lead a secluded life it is not necessary to say much of one's past, but as a rule something must be said. People have the habit of inquiring—if they are no more than butchers and bakers. By degrees one must account for this and that fact, and it was so here. .