Quotes About Past

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Men should discover their past. I admit to this. It has been my profession. Only so can we learn our limitations and come in time to suffer life with compassion. Nevertheless, I now believe there are occasions when … to tamper with the past, even one's own, is to bring [on] that slipping, sliding horror which revolves around all that is done, unalterable, and yet which abides unseen in the living mind … [and makes] us lonely beyond belief.

The past is prologue—and why are the lessons not being learned?

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

Aquel que ha sido no puede más en adelante no haber sido. En lo sucesivo ese hecho misterioso y profundamente oscuro de haber vivido es su viático para la eternidad".8

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

We never truly forget the things that have passed out of our lives. We merely move further away from them in time, until they become either less important than they actually were or more profound than we might have ever imagined. Had

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.

Events in the past may roughly be divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

The corpses in the wasteland of past and present haunt us. We are still in Eliot's land of the dead, imprisoned in Kafka's penal colony, running from the unexplained rage of the golem, listening to Lovecraft's drumbeat of horror, and shivering in the chilly shadow of Grau and Murnau's Nosferatu. We cannot awaken from history.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you weren't friends before you started dating, then what do you go back to, really?

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.