Quotes About Past

In Büchern liegt die Seele aller gewesenen Zeit.«

it is sufficient to say, that a chorus of work, the whole of my past life - but, as if recalled by an act of memory, but as if present and incarnated in the music: no longer painful to dwell upon: but the detail of it's incidents removed, or blended in some hazy abstraction; and its passions exalted, spiritualized, and sublimed. All this was to be had for five shillings.

After I retire, I have my own vision, which is not connected to the state of Israel. It's about me, living near the sea, and maybe writing something about the past.

I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.

You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.

The thing that interests me most about Scotland is how we differ from our neighbours. How do our ambitions differ? What kind of society are we? What can we learn from the mistakes of the past, and how do we position ourselves in the world?

For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.

I'm so concerned with morgues and libraries of the newspapers.

I'd always been interested in Nigeria's past.

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

One of the beautiful things about having kids is I had no idea how much it will make you look into yourself and who you are and what you believe in and what your past was like and all that kind of stuff. I think it's made me really look at life in a much more intense way.

There is almost no limit to the ability of investors to ignore the lessons of the past.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

The sun has come up and I am sitting by a window that is foggy with the breath of a life gone by.

the past can only be escaped by embracing something better, and he figured that was what she'd done.

Todos tenemos un pasado, pero solo se trata de eso, vivencias de otro tiempo. Puedes aprender de ellas, pero no puedes cambiarlas

And though she didn't know it then, whenever her thoughts drifted back toward the past, she would always remember that this was how it all began.

but because giving voice to the truth of her past meant opening the door to the future.

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past

While the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of it are malleable.

Ahora pensaba que lo que importaba eran las pequeñas cosas de la vida. Si los grandes momentos del pasado eran los que marcaban el tono, los acontecimientos de la vida cotidiana eran los que definían quién era ella.

Until yesterday, had someone even suggested that she go out with a guy with his past, she would have laughed aloud or - more likely - been offended. She should have simply said good-bye after he'd walked her to her car last night. The very Idea of the two of them going out today was absurd, and yet. . . she had asked him , and she had trouble remembering exactly how that had happened or what she'd been thinking. And yet, Colin was. . . magnetic

You used that one a month ago," she said calmly. "You're probably

Il passato non c'era più e adesso a loro restava solo il futuro.