Quotes About Past

Always remember that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Where was it written that I, child of no one, deserved such joy? It only happened at night, this abyss of dread, never during the day. Only in the empty hours between today and yesterday, when I was alone with my sleeping lover and the weight of the past crept upon me like a reproachful ghost.

The idea that it's valuable to maintain vast numbers of weak-tie social connections is largely an invention of the past decade or so—the detritus of overexuberant network scientists spilling inappropriately into the social sphere.

He had wasted the span of my entire life.

The past is a sadly inadequate word for what we've been through

Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

Para los más jóvenes aquel apellido sonoro y agudo que oían pronunciar de vez en cuando estaba vagamente ligado a la leyenda de aquellos parajes, a sus historias más antiguas, ciertas o no, y a algunas personas muertas mucho tiempo atrás que antes de abandonar este mundo se encargaron de dejar bien grabado su nombre en la memoria colectiva.

My ghosts had become my teachers.

If so, you will need to ask yourself if you are afraid to go to your ultimate success because you're afraid of outshining someone from long ago.

Jessica DuLong's elegantly written "My River Chronicles" brings the past of the Hudson River into the vivid present, and carries forward the craft of literary non-fiction with grace and energy.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

What's that sound I hear? It's just my lifetime It's whistling past my ear

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. This whole night has been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made. Or the promises I've made. Or have her back. Or have me back.

Una vez que un accidente pasa, no hay vuelta atrás.

Her voice jolts me back to reality. Back to the reality of the past three years. There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You've ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can't say any of that.

Oy, your karma really sucks, bubbee. You musta been Hitler in a former life or something.

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future.

GUILT COULD NOT change the past. Worry could not change the future. And yet, both followed Baden with relentless determination

But our present will always be the sum total of decisions made in our past.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

Oh well, hindsight always had all the best ideas.

Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.