Quotes About Past

I am amazed at how little has changed in the more than fifty years that have gone by since I was last here. Amazed, and disappointed, I would go so far as to say appalled, for reasons that are obscure to me, since why should I desire change, I who have come back to live amidst the rubble of the past?

I felt like a theatre-goer trapped in the middle of a long second act who hears, outside, a fire engine howling past in the direction of his own house.

I was estranged from myself and all that I had once supposed I was. My life up to now had only the weightless density of a dream. When I thought about my past it was like thinking of what someone else had been, someone I had never met but whose history I knew by heart. It all seemed no more than a vivid fiction.

Pomieszczenie wygl?da?o tak, jak je zapami?ta?em. Albo wygl?da?o, jak gdyby by?o takie, jakim je zapami?ta?em, gdy? z regu?y wspomnienia dopasowuj? si? niezauwa?alnie do rzeczy i miejsc z odwiedzanej przesz?o?ci.

Hay momentos en que el pasado posee una fuerza tan poderosa que parece que podría aniquilarte

What was your name before that?" I asked. "Frank," she said.

Of course all this happened a long time ago. And nothing like that could happen again, not in this day and age.

Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here

Natuurlijk gebeurde dit allemaal heel lang geleden en kan zoiets nu niet meer gebeuren. Niet in onze tijd.

Why couldn't Ireland have been like this when I was a boy?

And that's the end of the story about Bruno and his family. Of course all this happened a long time ago and nothing like that could ever happen again. Not in this day and age.

With change history you use the potency of your adult experiences to change the internal imprints from the past.

life is not an echo, endlessly returning the past to us so that we might read and reread in its fading variations the meanings we cannot keep ourselves from wanting.

Buying funds based purely on their past performance is one of the stupidest things an investor can do.

It is unlikely that Percy would have written my mother after her return from Europe, and, had she written, the letter would have been destroyed, since that family had a crusading detestation of souvenirs. Letters, photographs, diplomas—anything that authenticated the past was always thrown into the fire.

the Mackenzies regarded all this foolishness with the deepest respect, as if it had some genuine significance. They may have suffered from an indiscriminate sense of the past or from an inability to understand that the past plays no part in our happiness.

It was characteristic of the vein of unhappy sluggishness and inertness in him that only when impressions had subsided into the remote past could he be thrilled by them. The reality of the present seemed always weighted with something hurting.

The truth of our past haunts us, the memory of past lovers makes us feel all alone in our life. But never forget that we will always find someone who loves us more then we remember past lovers.

Don't let your past relationships ruin your future relationships because everyone is not the same and true love might not always be what you want, so accept who God blesses you with.

The girl you call bi... today is the girl that used to be your everything in the past.

I walk down memory lane because I know that I'll run into you there.

If only promises could erase the past, I could open my heart enough to take you back. But we've been down this road, time and time again. And Ive learned the hard way, how the story always ends.

Never bring OLD problems into a NEW relationship.

I miss who we were, how we felt, and mostly who you used to be.