Quotes About Past

Part of the complexity of living through history is the process of explaining things about the past that you never explained to yourself. So many temporary realties, distantly viewed in the rearview mirror, will appear ridiculous to any person who wasn't there.

But its more illuminating feature is something that often happens with popular history: An attempt at analyzing the distant past ends up being more astute about the living present.

It was not nostalgia for a time that was more wholesome. It was nostalgia for a time when you could relax and care less.

Pessimists thought this shutdown would kill baseball entirely. It did not. But it does represent the point where baseball's past became more desirable than baseball's future, an inversion that would never really reverse itself.

I always thought the time machine is the device that's missed most. Without even saying it out loud, that's the thing people want the most: The ability to take whatever it is that went wrong and fix it.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

When you understand, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble up and throw your past in the trashcan, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

An important part of building a new culture was allowing people to complain about their past. At first, the more they complained, the worse the past would seem. But by venting, people could start to resolve the past. By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything.

Her haunting me. The way a song stays in your head. The way you think life should be. How anything holds your attention. How your past goes with you into every day of your future.

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

When you understand, Brandy says, that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan, Brandy says, then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

You re­al­ize that our mis­trust of the fu­ture makes it hard to give up the past.

When you understand," Brandy says, "that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan," Brandy says, "then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

When you understand that what you're telling is just a story. It isn't happening anymore. When you realize the story you're telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan then we'll figure out who you're going to be.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Because everything up to now is a story. and everything after now is a story.

Schlechte Erinnerungen sind besser als gar keine.

Das Einzige, was die Gegenwart genießbar macht, ist die Tatsache, dass die Vergangenheit manchmal eine Folter war.

Wenn du es zulässt, tendiert deine Vergangenheit dazu, dir die Zukunft zu diktieren.