Quotes About Past

There are two major streams of self-awareness: "me," which builds narratives about our past and future; and "I," which brings us into the immediate present. The "me," as we've seen, links together what we experience across time. The "I," in stark contrast, exists only in the raw experience of our immediate moment.

We thought we had time.

Ahora solo queda este mal vestigio del nuestro que te recuerdo con tinta cada vez más descolorida. Es como si nunca hubiéramos tenido nada.

The first literary work in prose was history. And we call Herodotus (c.480–c.425 B.C.) the Father of History because his is the earliest surviving work in Greek prose that aimed to give literary form to an extended narrative of the past. The Greek historie means "inquiry" or the search for truth. Herodotus might also perhaps be called the Father of Prose, for until his time verse was still the normal vehicle for narratives of great events and heroes of the past.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

Ama onu suçlam?yorum, çünkü benim kim olduÄŸumu anlama çabalar?m?n ve varl???m?n tüm anlam?n?n, sadece geçmiÅŸimle deÄŸil, geleceÄŸimle ilgili olas?l?klar? ve sadece nereden geldiÄŸimi deÄŸil, nereye gittiÄŸimi de bilmekten geçtiÄŸini bir türlü anlam?yor.

I still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

still hear her. But perhaps I had been released. Maybe the fear and nausea was no longer a sea to drown in, but only a pool of water reflecting the past alongside the now. Was I free?

Talvez o medo e a náusea não fossem mais um oceano para me afogar, mas apenas uma piscina de água refletindo o passado ao lado do presente

Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream? Not your life, Greg, your past. Is there a distincition? Of course there is. In a very real sense, everyone's past is a dream; the past isn't a real thing you can reach back and touch; it's just something in your head. Your life, which is what's going on here and now at this table, is as real as anyone's...

For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.

"Somebody asked me if I knew you. A million memories flash through my mind, but I just smiled and said I used to."

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

There's been periods of broadcasts in the past where you could see all ages of entertainers, ranging from George Burns to Shirley Temple. That's not the condition now.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.