Quotes About Past

Some parts of history, however, do not merely recede into history, but into oblivion, into historical knowledge vacuums and sometimes into black holes.

past states, across time and space, simply on the basis of similarity with present states. . . .

Onorate il passato e affrettate il futuro; ma vivete nel presente coll'umiltà e coll'attività di chi sente la propria impotenza e insieme il bisogno di trovare la virtù.

History is not about the past; it is about arguments we have about the past. And because it is about arguments that we have, it is about us.

He didn't talk about his painful past. Ever. With anyone.

Father thou art in heaven, please make my inside so good and so fine that he can love me. I'm going to buy him a tie, because that's something I can do. Someone once told me that I have an almost masculine understanding of it. i guess there are situations where having a past is to your advantage. Heavenly Father, perform a miracle and give me an education--I can do the rest myself with make-up.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Speaking of silence, we can't help talking about me, the past master of this genre.

O God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.

El pasado y el futuro eran parte de la misma cosa y la realidad del presente era un caleidoscopio de espejos desordenados, donde todo podía ocurrir.

La fede assoluta in soluzioni razionali e la proliferazione della letteratura utopistica sono due aspetti di stadi consimili dello sviluppo culturale, nell'Atene classica come nel Rinascimento italiano, nel settecento francese come nei due secoli successivi, e non meno oggi che nel passato recente o remoto.

The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning roads, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indetations, scrolls.

Chegando a qualquer nova cidade o viajante reencontra o seu passado que já não sabia que tinha: a estranheza do que já não somos ou já não possuímos espera-nos ao caminho nos lugares estranhos e não possuídos.

The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past:

Os futuros não realizados são apenas ramos do passado: ramos secos.

È per smaltire un carico di nostalgia che sei andato tanto lontano!

The past is like a tapeworm, constantly growing, which I carry curled up inside me, and it never loses its rings no matter how hard I try to empty my guts in every WC, English-style or Turkish, or in the slop jars of prison or the bedpans of hospitals or the latrines of camps, or simply in the bushes, taking a good look first to make sure no snake will pop out, like that time in Venezuela.

La ciudad no cuenta su pasado, lo contiene como las líneas de una mano, escrito en las esquinas de las calles, en las rejas de las ventanas

Los futuros no realizados son sólo ramas del pasado: ramas secas.

You, reader, believed that there, on the platform, my gaze was glued to the hands of the round clock of an old station, hands pierced like halberds, in the vain attempt to turn them back, to move backward over the cemetery of spent hours, lying lifeless in their circular pantheon.

Hep ba??n arkaya dönük mü ilerlersin sen- ya da: -Gördü?ün ?ey hep geride kalan m?d?r?- ya da daha do?rusu: -Yaln?z geçmi?e mi senin yolculu?un?