Quotes About Past

One faces the future with one's past

Why was everyone so interested in her now? When it was too late to change anything? What was the point?

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

Clothing is . . . an exercise in memory. It makes me explore the past: how did I feel when I wore that. They are like signposts in the search for the past.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will find nothing but error.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet… it's so hard to let them go… to forget… to move ahead…

Yesterday's happenings are the reasons of Today's situation.

When the past is your enemy, all you have is the present.

I mean that we control the way we remember the past, and that's what matters in the present. We choose what is worthy of our memory. We should probably be grateful that we can't remember everything as God does, because if we did, we would find it impossible to forgive anyone. The limit of human memory encourages humility.

That's the thing about exes - for eternity you feel like rivals in a kind of happiness contest, and losing would be the epitome of tragedy.

If the souls of the dead could speak, they'd scream for release. Not just release from the Lake, but from their memories. Memories gnaw away at me relentlessly. I remember so much of my past, all the times where I failed or could have done better. With nothing else to do, I'm forced to review my life, over and over. Even my most minor errors become supreme lapses of judgement.

What you're saying is that there's no point worrying about the past, because we can't change it? Basically, she nodded, then leant over, one green eye shining brightly, one brown eye gleaming dully. A mortal can drive himself mad thinking about the nature of the universal puzzle. Concern yourself only with the problems of the present and you will get along fine.

No vision has ever come true, no promise has ever been kept. But then there was you, and you were the promise that would obliterate all of the disappointments of the past. Everything about you insisted on it. Your color, your hair, the way light projects from every part of you. You were the sun that would burn away sponge putrid broken promises of the world.

A few years ago" has a comfortable distance. The blood is dry, the scabs hardened, peeled. Early on was different.

It is said that you are a New Yorker the moment you remember the way New York used to be. This miraculous place lives to obliterate its history. It is history as fashion. Trend. Moments. Moments lost and... overwritten. You have to hunt the past in NY. Not like Prague. Budapest. Krakow. Paris. Istanbul. These places wear their pasts with honor over their hearts. A woman. Not a girl. New York... is youth. Always trying on new masks, new faces.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them. It has no sense of past or future. That means that as soon as you tell yourself that you need to do something, and store it in your RAM, there's a part of you that thinks you should be doing that something all the time.

Yes, Miss," I said. "They are much much more mysterious. The past, for instance, was present to the people who lived in it. And the future will quickly become the present and will just as quickly become the past. And in our thoughts, the past and the present and the anticipation of the future exist together.