Quotes About Past

Il presente a volte può essere un pessimo ambiente se arredato con i residui di un passato difficile da dimenticare.

Andare a caccia di ricordi non è mai un bell'affare. Qualunque cosa trovi sulla tua strada, rimane in ogni caso un nulla di fatto. Quelli belli non li puoi più catturare e quelli brutti non li puoi uccidere.

Poucas coisas são mais tristes do que os lugares de poder abandonados, onde os fantasmas do passado são mais fortes do que os homens de carne e osso que se obstinam em habitá-

The past has been given to us,' Miss Hester said. 'The future must be built, as others have built our past.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

STORY" is more than half of the word "HISTORY". And that's no accident.

Why do some details become "history"—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.

I thought, When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

If there has to be an autopsy of the sordid past, let's blame the parents. Aren't they the primary suspects, anyway? As the eyewitness, I'll testify to that.

Every "Now-moment" is an opportunity to change not only the Future but also the Past.

No matter how fast we run we can never escape our past or catch up with the future. We might as well enjoy the NOW.

You cannot change what you do not own. Own your past and the future belongs to you. Own your fears and the stars are yours to change.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. —JAMES JOYCE

Most of the heartbreak that life contains is a result of ignoring the reality that past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Teetering on life's balance, between the long past and the unknown yet less infinite future, knowing it's only going to tip in one direction, and more quickly than you ever expected — that sense of vertigo, fear, excitement, and uncertainty, is middle age.

Old books are leather-bound ghosts.

[B]ut his own vehicle had been a wreck of rust and nostalgia.

Emily – dashing – perched phoenix Soul aflame – hidden – Past Alit the Future

If you have lived, take thankfully the past; Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

God! what a light has passed away from earth Since my last look!... How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone. The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

History is the shadow of time; life its substance, and they bear the same relation to one another, that the dim twilight does to the up-risen and visible sun. It is in vain to talk to men of throwing their minds into the past, or into the future, you may as well bid them leap out of themselves, or beyond their shadow. The present is all in all to us.