Quotes About Past

The past and the future are both part of a single continuum

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

History is a collection of paper. A few fading recollections. After a while what is not written never happened.

I feel old, Squire. Every conversation is about the past.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten, can they?

The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to perpetuate itself. What has no past can have no future.

The abyss of the past into which the world is falling. Everything vanishing as if it had never been. We would hardly wish to know ourselves again as we once were and yet we mourn the days.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not

the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.

The horrors of the past lose their edge, and in the doing they blind us to a world careening toward a darkness beyond the bitterest speculation.

The horrors of the past lose their edge, and in the doing they blind us to a world careening toward a darkness beyond the bitterest speculation. It's sure to be interesting. When the onset of universal night is finally acknowledged as irreversible even the coldest cynic will be astonished at the celerity with which every rule and stricture shoring up this creaking edifice is abandoned and every aberrancy embraced. It should be quite a spectacle. However brief.

The old man remembered it now with dim regret, and remembered such nights when the air was warm as a breath and the moon no dead thing.

Your brother is young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy. Perhaps you believe this also?

The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.

he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly exaggerated. for the world was made each day and it was only men's clinging to its vanished husks that could make of that world one husk more

Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Los recuerdos de los hombres son inciertos y el pasado que fue difiere muy poco del pasado que no fue.

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

Everywhere hung portraits of blacks, strange family groups where the faces watched gravely from out of their paper past. Hanging in the dark like galleries of condemned.

I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not -Judge Holden

If you carry your past into battle you are riding to your death.