Quotes About Past

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people.

The past is a lake in which you add every day a glass with your attitudes. How crystal clear is water?

One fine day she left the past behind and gave privacy to the future. He took his now to take a walk, watch the sun, listen to good music, spread smiles and be grateful!

We only have one life and two choices: sadness and regret for a past we cannot change or happiness for every moment we can choose how to live.

ZANE: Everyone has an ex they regret.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

History is a light that illuminates the past, and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

There is no more fascinating subject in which a person may become occupied than an examination into the history of his ancestry.

History never really says goodbye. History says, see you later.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

I would go back to the past and watch one of the early Beatles shows, because they were such a massive part of cultural history. As a younger person, you feel you missed out on that.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.