Quotes About Past

Life is for living, for moving on, for letting the past lie behind us.

Without music, the prehistoric past is just too quiet to be believed.

forgotten how

there is inevitably something of "us" in the stories we tell about the past. This is the historian's predicament, and it is foolish to think there is some method, however well intentioned, that can extricate us from this predicament. (p. 10, paperback edition)

Unngh,' the Minotaur says. What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.

The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.

Thirteen month old baby broke the lookin' glass,Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past.When you believe in things that you don't understandThen you suffer,Superstition ain't the way.

In het eindeloze van de nacht telt de wekker de gang van de tijd - elke tik een steentje afgenomen van de toekomst, en achterover in de put van 't verleden geworpen.

If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past Security in human systems we're told will always always last Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast." ( History Will Teach Us Nothing )

Is there an army of ex-lovers out for my blood now?

He had revealed himself as false, yet still some part of her felt it was something from the past, something too dreadful to be articulated which impelled him to do the things he did.

He had looked as beautiful as she remembered him, yet he had all but forgotten her.

We are in the original Chamber, which in ages past was used by the magi of the King of Magravandias. To this day, the government is called the Fire Chamber, but they no longer use this sacred place for their meetings. Few know it exists.

Our elders wanted to forget the past, and relatively youthful people, like myself, complied with their wishes; we had been trained to fear our history.

Only your death can bring back the knowledge of the past. Your soul must be snuffed out like an exploding sun. Run away from it, Shemyaza. Disappear into the world. Become Peveral Othman again. It is what you really want. You're not a saviour, you never wanted to be. Others have shaped you in the image of their desires.

Akahana was dizzying, mainly because it seemed to be several different places at once. On the surface, it was all hustle and heat, yet Shan was immediately aware of a dark and inscrutable undercurrent-magic hanging in the air, as Sinaclara had foretold. It also seemed as if if the ancient past was very close to the present and that it would be possible, either accidentally or otherwise to slip between the two.

They had come here seeking the past, and maybe they had found it. But not in the way they'd imagined.

There is almost too much to say between us, Val. A thousand apologies will not change the past on either side.

What lived in the room was never far from Daniel's mind. It lurked there, like something he didn't want to to do and had forcibly forgotten, or something to be face in the future that he dreaded. What lived there was the ghost of his former love.

The past is not all gilded memories of summer, Merlan. If some aspects of it are uncomfortable, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be confronted.

Ghosts only lived in the past, caught up in their melodramas, reliving and reliving them. Selish they were, selfish and blind.

The past lay between them, a stagnant flood of unspoken words and unexpressed feelings.

The clues were there all along, but we'd denied our past and shut ourselves away from the truth.

All that existed was the direction I travelled; an invisible path in the mettle of manifestation. I was the spirit of all soulscapers, past and present.