Quotes About Past

Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.

Glimpses of how it really was before us are rare, if not impossible.

The smoke of his breath drifts past my ear up toward the stars.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

Obama is a clown. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the President doesn't know what he's talking about when he says fossil fuels are the energy of the past. We have more oil than we need. We'll never run out of it. It's all we've got.

It was said that a man does not look behind a door unless he has once stood there.

For you, I will write of it all --- part truth, part memory, part nightmare --- my life, the one that started so long ago, in a place so far from here . . .

Nostalgia is toxic, false, and impulse based in a desire to escape the present into the imagined past.

I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.

Some things can't be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it.

Life -- a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly 33 by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary.

For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty; for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.

I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men.

We were each other's only link to the past . . . that was the strength of our bond, and also our weakness.

He stared at me with bitter understanding. We both knew there was no room in this for friendship. Nothing left but childhood history.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.

It is no secret that Louis van Gaal and I did not get along. But for me personally, the matter is closed and forgotten.

Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

Diverse forms of memory can have a variety of gaps. Thus it is possible for me to represent a past situation to myself and be unable to remember my inner behavior in this situation. As I transfer myself back into this situation, a surrogate for the missing memory comes into focus.