Quotes About Past

Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.

B)ut who can start over when memories never leave you? —Ruth Mendenberg

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me. —Ruth Mendenberg

Is there something in your past that you think measured you? A

still in use though coeval with the old house. Then

Manhattan, When I Was Young

I stay in that state of mind for the next couple of days, in the places that only exist in the past. The things you can't undo get lodged in the darkest corners of your mind, where nothing ever seems to get solved, just recycled into new anxiety.

We don't come from places. We come from time. From traumatic moments that cannot be undone.

you can love some all you want, but you can't go into their past and become a part of their formative years.

It's not the past if it's not finished.

cry. He knew that the light from stars was light that was dead already, that what you were seeing was the past, not your present, and certainly not your future.

That the past feels more distant as we physically move forwards is important, because a major risk factor for depression is the tendency to ruminate, getting stuck in a loop of over-analyzing things you've said, done or experienced in the past while getting steadily more despondent. Physically moving forwards can help prevent this by making the bad stuff seem further behind you.

She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then

These ruins are to the future what the past is to us

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passion, but now all gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone like ghosts at cock-crow.

We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.

Once the singing was and is

I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.