Quotes About Past

El Olvido está lleno de Memoria

Lucía la miró y cayó en la cuenta de que ella jamás tendría una vida doméstica normal, porque sus pensamientos estaban demasiado contaminados por el pasado.

he] knows this, just as he knows that any story told about what has happened in the past can never be certain, that there is always yearning in the piecing together of information. The story of history is the story of its telling and its retelling. There are truths lost to time and desire.

Sometimes remembering means to live a moment in the past again, and in that way survive the present.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

to see in the past that very godly people were able to maintain bizarre interpretations of Scripture should be a caution for us all.

La oración consiste en pedirle a Dios que haga algo, tiempo futuro; la alabanza consiste en creer que Dios ya lo ha hecho, tiempo pasado.

At some point, most of us stop living out of imagination and start living out of memory. Instead of creating the future, we start repeating the past. Instead of living by faith, we live by logic. Instead of going after our dreams, we stop circling Jericho. But it doesn't have to be that way.

William S. Burroughs said cut into the present and the future leaks out When I cut into the past what leaks out is you

You do change human nature, your own human nature, if you surrender it to Christ. Human nature can be changed here and now. Human nature has been changed in the past. Human nature must be changed on an enormous scale in the future, unless the world is to be drowned in its own blood. And only Christ can change it.

The heart is a repository of vanished things:

Perhaps that was the genuine siren's song of legend, the temptation to jettison the ballast of the past and rush weightless and unencumbered down a dark tunnel of rebirth. Perhaps that was the soul's destiny regardless.

Something worth loving. But she could not love him as long as she hated herself. Her past wouldn't allow it.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

Children need fairy tales, but it is just as essential that they have parents who tell them about their own lives, so that they can establish a relationship to the past.

Even though Christianity in the past and in the present sacralizes suffering, in both subtle and blatant forms, it is not a necessary feature of a Christian understanding of the crucified God. At

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

Like many of those who document history, he also curated the images of the past he left behind.

El pasado duele solo si dejamos que nos alcance

a moment in the past, like a bone in the throat, that needed his attention.

I am made of pieces and of the spaces between them where other pieces used to be. I am a landscape of loss. Most of me is the memory of where else, and who else, and with whom, I have been and no longer am.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

It's money. I remember it from when I was single

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.