Quotes About Past

If a man can remember what he worried about last week, he has a very good memory.

All to myself I think of you, Think of the things we used to do, Think of the things we used to say, Think of each happy bygone day, Sometimes I sigh, and sometimes I smile, But I keep each olden, golden while All to myself.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Time is the one thing that can never be retrieved.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

There is a skeleton in every house.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

But where are the snows of yesteryear?

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

The future is the past in preparation.

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. 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 flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present.

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good.

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.

Past: Our cradle, not our prison, and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation; for continuation, not repetition.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.