Quotes About Past

Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.

It's painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

memories brings some past that dealt with the pain and yet we choose to embrace it as if we have a lot to gain.

The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.

This is a love story. It's about the good old days, when men were men and women were women and books were books.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past that was more of a horror story than a fairytale.

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

Some memories should be dead as they are like living corpse in mortal's bed

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.

The macabre melodies were a surreal audible example of just who I'd been before and a stark contrast to who I was now.

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever.

Mistaking a naive observation of the past as something definitive or representative of the future is the one and only cause of our inability to understand the Black Swan.

In a few decades will we look upon the Nobel economics committee with the same smirk as when we look at the respected "scientific" establishments of the Middle Ages that promoted (against all observational evidence) the idea that the heart  was a center of heat? We have been getting things wrong in the past and we laugh at our past institutions; it is time to figure out that we should avoid enshrining the present ones.

This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare.

Our problem is not just that we do not know the future, we do not know much of the past either. We

Problema noastr? nu este numai c? nu cunoa?tem viitorul, ci ?i c? nu cunoa?tem nici trecutul.

When you look at the past, the past will always be deterministic, since only one single observation took place.

the studious examination of the past in the greatest of detail does not teach you much about the mind of History; it only gives you the illusion of understanding it.

blinded by his past results.

They will find something he did before when he was successful that he has subsequently stopped doing, and attribute his failure to that. The truth will be, however, that he simply ran out of luck.

some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of "heuristics," these often unwritten rules of thumb that are so determining of survival. In other words, you will be forced to give weight to things that have been around, things that have survived.