Quotes About Past

A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

Slowly, I've come to realize That I cannot heal my past And that fearing the unavoidable future Is pointless

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

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The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

There ain't no future in the past.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.

Our biggest technology that we ever, ever invented was articulated language with built-out grammar. It is that that allows us to imagine things far in the future and things way back in the past.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.