Quotes About Past

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]

I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.

You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.

The only men I love are dead.

Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.

I'm an old man, and she's gone now. So don't worry, okay?

Unlike modern man, who dreams of the world he will make, pre-modern man dreamed of the world he left.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.

The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past."

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

Today, we see the reemergence of reverence for the Divine Mother that we knew in past ages.

A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.