Quotes About Past

we, as a society, archive our history. We don't want to forget where we've been and what we've seen. The past informs us, and can easily transform us, if we choose to let it. Q.

That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I had been told something like that before. That the past is nothing you can make friends or enemies of. It just is what it is. Or was. It is this day you are living right now, this very day, that is yours to make of it what you will. So make it beautiful, if you can.

memories have no power but what I allow them.

The past was speaking . . . what was the difference now? She had the feeling she'd walked into a house she thought she knew well and discovered a room she hadn't seen before. Maybe it wasn't too late. Maybe they did have a chance.

The best fiction is history

The art critic and philosopher John Berger once said that we like to look at animals because it reminds us of the past and the  agrarian life that included the regular presence of animals.

how necessary, and how full of hope it is to collect these books and manuscripts and preserve them. It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

It declares that all these stories matter, and so does every effort to create something that connects us to one another, and to our past and to what is still to come.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.

Fiction, also--if done well--can perhaps allow the reader a greater feeling of recognition with people of the past. If we read a novel about people trying to control the Revolution, we're reading about them as people who have desires, ambitions, and neuroses just like ours, and we can relate to them, rather than seeing them just as stiff portraits with funny-looking hair--or as the one-dimensional monsters or saints that many pop histories have made them.

After all, the past wasn't something that could be changed by fretting. Or by regretting

No," Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.' Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.

I hope old new doesn't haunt new you. We've already got enough ghosts between us.

No podéis robarme el pasado. No podéis robarme mi historia.

Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance." He

You can't take my past. You can't take my history.

No té res d'especial, només és un lloc on jo era feliç.

some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

He said that some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.

I'm in love with someone else," he says. "But she's gone. And I—

Well, that's the thing about our past—it shapes our future.