Quotes About Past

Had me this boy once. You kinda remind me . . ." She turned and surveyed the corridor. "Johnny, his name was.

Noches que con gran cuidado eliminaste de la desordenada baraja de tu pasado

Do we have a past, then?" Stonestreet asks. "History is a best-guess narrative about what happened and when," Bigend says, his eyes narrowing. "Who did what to whom. With what. Who won. Who lost. Who mutated. Who became extinct.

I have important information for you." The vowel in you suggested a siren dopplering past, then gone.

I understood Fox's late-night habit of emptying his wallet, shuffling through his identification. He'd lay the pieces out in different patterns, rearrange them, wait for a picture to form. I knew what he was looking for. You did the same thing with your childhoods, [Sandii]. In New Rose, tonight, I choose from your deck of pasts

Let me think in pictures again. If I imagine heaven metaphorically dazzled into colours, the pure white light spread out in a cascade richer than a peacock's tail then I see that one of the colours lay over me. I was innocent of guilt, unconscious of innocence; happy, therefore, and unconscious of happiness. Perhaps the full sheaf of colours is never to be experienced by the human being since if they experience these colours they must lie in the past or on someone else.

My father was an historian

In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.

William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

The runner's high is a sensation that occurs after thirty-five minutes of a sustained, high-rate heartbeat. The brain releases hormones which take the athlete into an energized mental and physical space. The sensation usually lasts for about four hours. The amazing thing about an athlete's high is the person's past disappears and is irrelevant.

Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

waiting for our lives to converge onto the precise fault line at which our past could be cleaved from our future with three soft strikes of the bright brass knocker.

Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

Mary felt a sadness as weary as his manner. Of course the poor man dismissed the painting. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

From my country you have taken its future, and to my country you have sent the objects from your past. We do not have the seed, we have the husk.

The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.

We all have a past it is how we deal with it to find a better future

We grasp at symbols, talismans, triggers of association to what's forever gone.

I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.

How societies often clash before seeing a common humanity in each oher... How earnest, well- intentioned heroes can often succumb to temptations of power... How failing to take responsability for mistakes of the past can lead to calamity in the present...

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O'Connor