Quotes About Past

This is the house where the dead lived. It is gone, lost and gone.

I suppose the suspicion is that our common past can only warrant a common future if we are willing to rid ourselves of the outliers.

The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

They motored out past the pilings, dark with pitch and trailing a green scurf in the claycolored water.

Ci sono un sacco di cose che sembrano più belle, viste da lontano. Si? Almeno così la penso io. E hai ragione. La vita passata, per esempio. Già. E magari anche la vita non ancora vissuta.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten (135)

Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Yesterday. Was there a more merciless word?

He closed the window, and the scents of the past again flooded the room, like a bunch of wilted flowers.

John fand es faszinierend, dass sein ältester Sohn es sich sur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit dieser Welt zu suchen, während sein Vater ihr die Zukunft brauchte.

The data flow so fast that that the total accumulation of the past two years—a zettabyte [one sextillion bytes]—dwarfs the prior record of human civilization.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME~ Old Wrinkly

The past has a way of catching up with you.

Books are like dragons....if we do not believe in them, and read them, they will cease to exist. How, then, will we learn the language and understand the stories of the dear dead ghosts of the past? Save the Dragons. Speak Dragonese. Read a book.

The past haunts the present in mores ways than we realize. It certainly scares the living daylights out of me.

History is a ghost story.

Stories come from somewhere, said the witch. The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

Time cannot tick backward

Her past, she fears, is eclipsing her present.

The family is a police state, the Visitor said, describing how minuscule stages lit up inside her, repeating key scenes from her life. Do people remember only what they can endure, or distort memories until they can endure them? After a long silence, A. said: Childhood is a city you never leave. In Berlin's past, we seek our own.

She went on and on, until Jeff had a sense of family spreading out around them endlessly, and only an hour later, when she was lost in reminiscences, did he understand that the names she mentioned, the people she spoke of, were most of them long ago dead. The family spread not out and around, but back, back into time.

Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past.

But then he didn't want to remember, because she had been nothing to him then, and his nature revolted from remembering her as she was when she was nothing to him.