Quotes About Past

A sudden ache beset his heart; he had stumbled on just one of those past moments in his life, whose beauty and rapture he had failed to arrest, whose wings had fluttered away into the unknown; he had stumbled on a buried memory, a wild sweet time, swiftly choked and ended.

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure

When you have no future, you live in the past.

These are mistakes, not regrets. Regrets are over and done with and a waste of time to rehash. Mistakes, though, are bad moves in the past that might affect the future.

I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long.

She seldom dated because there were so few eligible men, or so few who appealed to her. She had one bad breakup in her past, an awful split that, after almost eight years, was still baggage.

Lacy had no idea of their frustration. For five months now, every lead had gone nowhere. Every Crime Stopper's tip had done nothing but waste more time. Every new theory had eventually petered out. Verno's murder was so carefully planned that there had to be a reason for it, but motive eluded them. Little was known of his unremarkable past. On the other hand, they were convinced that Dunwoody had simply picked the wrong spot.

Street life was a struggle to survive today, with no time to reminisce and nothing in the past to get nostalgic over. There was no future so that point of reference was likewise unknown.

The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.

Yale was founded before the advent of the fraternity system, so the white men of generations past had to make up their own structures for sub-erotic bonding and pointless tribalism.

It is a consuming knowledge, an overwhelming sadness for what is lost that makes enjoyment of the present impossible.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

And never forget, there is memory.

Because who can describe the look that triggers the memory of loved ones? Who can anticipate the frown, the smile, or the misplaced lock of hair that sends a swift, undeniable signal from the past? Who can ever estimate the power of association, which is always strongest in moments of love and in memories of death?

When people say that German or any other language is romantic... all they really mean is that they've enjoyed a past in the language.

Juan Diego lived there, in the past—reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.

Okay," I said. I still have that photograph, though I don't like remembering any part of the day Carlton Delacorte died.

The past was where he lived most confidently, and with the surest sense of knowing who he was—not only as a novelist.

Um epílogo, disfarçado de resumo do passado, é realmente uma forma de nos alertar sobre o futuro.

You shouldn't guess about someone's past; if you don't see any evidence of it, a person's past remains unknown to you.)

Everyone has a history, Jack.

May you be spared such a moment of recognition as this—namely, the conviction that most of your happiness lies behind you, and the lion's share of your loneliness looms ahead.