Quotes About Past

Memory is a cemetery I've visited once or twice

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for the re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

The key question of time travel," my father says, "is this: How do we know what it means to perceive an event as presently occurring, rather than as a memory of a past event? How can we tell present from past? And how do we move the infinitesimal window

Um homem não pode regressar. Ele pensa que sim, mas outras coisas se passaram na sua vida. Tem novas ideias, novos amigos e novas ligações. Não pertence ao seu passado, excepto pelo facto de que o passado terá deixado, talvez, marcas nele.

Their past is my present, and when I look at them I can hear their voices quite clearly, just the way they were, every one of them, every single one. I love the sound of children's voices, especially in the early morning, the sound of their half-whispered chatter and their secret laughter.

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

All of life's conflicts are between letting go or holding on, opening into the present or clinging to the past, expansion or contraction.

world I thought would both make me into the woman I knew I could become and turn me back into the girl I'd once been.

my exes who waited within bluetooth range could see me dolled up. After

E qualquer coisa que eu recorde agora, vai doer. A memória é uma vasta ferida.

Well, the good old days with most of us was when we didn't earn enough to pay an income tax.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

The past and present wilt — I have filled them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

And it is often in the past that the secret of the future lies!

Whenever I think about the past, it just brings back so many memories.

And why should I rekindle these smoking embers? Why call up from their casements the ghosts of the dead?

Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.

The past does not have the power to undermine your future. Only you can do that.

Words of snow, which fell last year.

The flowers of the past are dead — but their wilted beauty and potpourri aroma enrich the present with memories.

Eternity is a clock which says 'tick' in one century and 'tock' in the next.

I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8th in voting booths across our nation than by any other event in the world.