Quotes About Past

Societies everywhere have a tendency to construct a genealogically useful past for themselves in which desirable versions of their history are favored and unwanted narratives purged.

He was sleeping outside my cave, which he often does, because he's such a weirdo, and I snuck right past him. Not much of a guard, if that's what he was trying to do! Ha ha!

back before both his father and Char had died from the weird sickness that swept the palace a few years ago.

About two thousand years ago

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.

Then since we mortal lovers are, Ask not how long our love will last; But while it does, let us take care Each minute be with pleasure past: Were it not madness to deny To live because we're sure to die?

La fedeltà al passato non è un dato bensì un voto. Come tutti i voti può essere deluso, o tradito

the past had other possibilities, and so do we today.

The past wasn't dead, nor past. She herself was black, and was explaining the demographic of the Black Belt today by referring to slavery, still a visitable memory because of the persistence of its effects.

I came to see that for him, for most sociopaths, he had no memory—took no responsibility for anything he'd said or done—had no past, no history, it never happened. Memory is essential to conscience; he had no conscience.

Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning.

But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime. I remarried. I'm very happy with my new wife, and I can't imagine living without her. This, however, doesn't mean that I have to renounce all my past experiences, as long as I'm careful not to compare my two lives. You can't measure love the way you can the length of a road or the height of a building.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

We learn in the past, but we are not the result of that. We suffered in the past, loved in the past, cried and laughed in the past, but that's of no use in the present. The present has its challenges, its good and bad side. We can neither blame nor be grateful to the past for what is happening now. Each new experience of love has nothing whatsoever to do with past experiences. It's always new.

you don't need to go that far in the future, you just have to go 2000 years ago

Las imágenes felices del pasado y las cosas que podrían haber sido y no fueron

All that had been was now no more.

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.