Quotes About Past

She has become someone that I am bound to forget her.

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future.

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

Pain of the past never goes away, you just find a way to deal with it. And in the future....... all the promise it holds.... that's what keeps you moving forward, and out of the darkness.

Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you'd never go back to and thinking about it… that's pretty much how I'm feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I'd never go back to.

Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery.

Am urmele unui trecut care, nu numai c? e mort, ca orice trecut, dar care n-a transmis nimic epocilor care au venit dup? el. Trecut f?r? urma?i.

About the past and the future? About innovation and tradition? About transition and the temporality of time?

Most of us, she said, absolve ourselves of responsibility for change by sentimentalizing our pasts.

Moltes de nosaltres, va dir, ens eximim de la responsabilitat de canviar les coses aferrant-nos als sentiments del nostre passat. Llavors vivim amb llibertat, feliços, o si no som feliços del tot, almenys vivim sense una angoixa terrible.

You knew me. You knew that person, but you don't know the person I'm trying to become... You are not your past!

What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next... It is still unwritten.

But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.

Tell me about your family, I said. And so she did. I listened intently as my mother went through each branch of the tree. Years later, after the funeral, Maria had asked me questions about the family - who was related to whom - and I struggled. I couldn't remember. A big chunk of our history had been buried with my mother. You should never let your past disappear that way.

But just because you have silenced a memory does not mean you are free of it.

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well. When they mailed the letter, they wrote a name, a street, a city, a country and they melted wax and sealed the envelope with a signet ring. Sarah had never known a world like that. Speed now trumped the quality of words. A fast send was more important.

I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic.

He used the haunting phrase, "Alas for what has been lost.

It's amazing how folks can't see you, 'cause they want to keep you in that past.

In time I came to view that event the way you view a faded vacation photo. It's just someplace you went a long time ago.