Quotes About Past

Clara los escribió para que me sirvieran ahora para rescatar las cosas del pasado y sobrevivir a mi propio espanto. El primero es un cuaderno escolar de veinte hojas, escrito con una delicada caligrafía infantil. Comienza así: <>

Pregunta del periodista al Dalái Lama: ¿Puede recordar sus vidas pasadas? Respuesta: A mi edad me cuesta recordar lo que pasó ayer.

El futuro no existe, (...), sólo contamos con el pasado para extraer experiencia y conocimiento, y el presente, que es apenas un chispazo, puesto que en el mismo instante se convierte en ayer.

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)

He didn't like remembering such things, but by now he was used to the way life was punctuated by such moments, which sent hooks into parts of the past one might prefer to forget.

Although I didn't spend much time in New Zealand at all, I feel really privileged to have that Maori blood and link to my past. I got my tattoo out of respect to that.

If you look at 'Threatz' and 'Parents,' then you look at 'Zone 3,' all of that is nostalgic.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

What's done can't be undone.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

As time requireth, a man of marvellous mirth and past times, and sometimes of as sad gravity, as who say: a man for all seasons.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

One faces the future with one's past.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead!

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

I wanted to put my present joy in the context of all the past pain, to show that there really is light at the end of the tunnel.