Quotes About Past

This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Only a fool trips on what is behind them.

Because it was at Corcoran—on the Level II yard—that I immediately ran across some guys I'd known in

What you are pleased to call Sufism is merely the record of past method.

Aquello que te complace llamar Sufismo es simplemente la recopilación de un método pasado.

El presente es la única entrada al mundo espiritual, que no se encuentra nunca en el pasado ni en el futuro. El pasado es solo memoria y el futuro es imaginación. El presente en cambio se abre, como una puerta que suponíamos clausurada, a lo que está más allá de nuestros miedos, de nuestro limitado 'yo' y sus amarras terrestres y cotidianas.

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

Thinking back to a time when everything seemed so simple.

To make history, first you must learn history.

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Nothing in the past can convincingly point to [a black swan's] possibility.

I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

We knew giants then, before the wine soured.

A past is comforting because it' certain.

It's too late for remorse, but the old ones always regret for something

it is a truth of historical fiction that all the characters are long dead; all the lives and stories have ended, and usually not well.

That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!

I miss you because memory is a kind editor. The past is a long scroll and in it is the story of us, told with gentle metaphor, and words that bring you back and back, even as you lie there, lying.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

the past, present and future all exist but not at the same times. In

what's done is done", that the past cannot be changed, and that the future can be changed because it is "open". To