Quotes About Past

My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory—hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.

She was old too, when she went to school they didn't have history.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

Gradually you became my worst memories with a beautiful past

The past is an educational toy for the present. It should be discarded the moment its usefulness is outgrown.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

[History is] petrified imagination.

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Don't forget your history nor your destiny

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.