Quotes About Past

That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past. Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.

You should respect the past. You should never forget the past. But you can't live there.

She did ask for the name. And I gave it to her. Okay, now I remember. After

Which goes to show an appreciation of history can be very helpful in day-to-day living.

what we have to do with regard to the great wisdom from the whole of the past, both in the East and in the West, is to assimilate it and go on to new and original perception relevant to our present condition of life.

Most stories about one's past could fairly and adequately be told in a single sentence, and a short one at that: Everyone did the best they could.

An arrow in the knee." The count shrugged. "The result of an old disagreement—long since forgotten.

Every love story is a ghost story.

The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art — that is, the meaningful-real. (The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952))

What's done cannot be undone.

Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone.

Possiamo chiudere con il passato, ma il passato non chiude con noi.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

For you and I are past our dancing days

The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Well, time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let me try.

She was determined to put behind her the madness of the past—or as much as a vulnerable and memory-racked mind permitted—

she let her mind drift back to the day it was signed, some six years earlier.

but I ain't seen 'em in twenty years.

his cunning. That had been enough in the past, Palmer told himself, and it would be again. To his great relief, Morgan and the other man mounted up without searching the saddlebags on the dead horse. An ugly smile tugged at Palmer's mouth. Morgan was probably helping Stevens try to recover the money Soapy had stolen from him.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.