Quotes About Past

Les humains non plus ne peuvent changer le passé ; souvent ils le falsifient, le conjecturent, le concoctent, parfois le réinventent, l'imaginent et, au mieux, le racontent.

Face aux archipels du passé, solides et insubmersibles, le présent incertain et précaire perdait toute consistance. Le réel ne résistait pas aux reflux de la mémoire.

Their imaginations put the scene on a film loop. Guiltily, they watched it until their mental screens began to wash the rest of the past away.

Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my reputation and my fucked-up mind.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.

One of the truths about suicide is that it's hardly ever about the future. It's the past the suicide can't face, and although disgrace appears to be the exception, the one instance where suicide seems to be about the future, even in Oedipus, it's her past Jocasta can't accept, once it's come to light.

All stones are close to us. The last is behind us. (Toutes les pierres sont près de nous. - La dernière est derrière nous.) [Fables1, The Bird and its Sun / L'Oiseau et son Soleil]

Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent Le passé, non l'avenir)

"I am the Ghost of Christmas Past." "Long past?" inquired Scrooge…. "No. Your past."

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.

In a word, it was impossible for me to separate her, in the past or in the present, from the innermost life of my life.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

I remember him as something left behind upon the road of life—as something I have passed, rather than have actually been—and almost think of him as of someone else.

I sometimes derived the impression, from his manner, or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances. But he never justified himself by a hint tending in that way, or tried to bend the past out of its eternal shape.

Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally

Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally

Let me remember how it used to be, and bring one morning back again.

I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.

It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as he scrambled out of bed. "The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. Oh Jacob Marley! Heaven, and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!

I don't know when, but apparently ages ago—about

Little Dorrit would often ride out in a hired carriage that was left them, and alight alone and wander among the ruins of old Rome. The ruins of the vast old Amphitheatre, of the old Temples, of the old commemorative Arches, of the old trodden highways, of the old tombs, besides being what they were, to her were ruins of the old Marshalsea—ruins of her own old life—ruins of the faces and forms that of old peopled it—ruins of its loves, hopes, cares, and joys.

in that England which I shall see no more. I see Her with a child upon her bosom, who bears my name. I see her father, aged