Quotes About Past

How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

The theory that languages are tools used for particular purposes, sometimes for many different purposes, means that extinct languages belong neither in a museum of art nor in a museum of natural history. Tools are meant to be surpassed by better tools. Once they are, they should be preserved in a museum of technology, of human ingenuity, of the cultural past.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of 'fossils' – in religious rituals or politics, or whatever – even when their original significance had been lost.

La confianza es un camino de dos direcciones... Todas las fortunas tienen sus límites. Hay cosas más importantes en la vida que un trozo de cristal. Las palabras, por dulces que fueran, no suavizaban la pérdida. El pasado es como un mal sueño. No se llega a olvidar del todo, pero con el tiempo pierde intensidad. las cosas no te consuelan cuando tienes miedo, ni te escuchan cuando necesitas hablar con alguien. Las cosas nunca me han hecho feliz.

No matter what happened in the past, what you did or she didn't do, nothing can change that. All you got is now and you don't know for how long.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power

I repeat, not the man does it, because he has nothing to say on his own destiny, because how the history of the human past is written and that book cannot be changed, so is the future which will be a part of the history and his book neither can be changed.

What has faded, is already lost

Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse

True love never dies, even if you have found a new love, the sweet memory of the past will continue to hunt you for the rest of your life.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

I'm so tired, but I can't sleep...standing on the edge of something much too deep...funny how I feel so much but cannot say a word...we are screaming inside, oh, but we can't be heard...so afraid to love you, more afraid to lose...clinging to a past

A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows. Love can erase an awful past, love can be yours, you'll see at last. To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die. You hope you've found that special rose, 'cause you love and care for the one you chose.

Obama, congratulations on being the first sitting President to support marriage equality. Feels like the future, and not the past.

When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was

Let us not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.

As much as we may miss someone and want them back in our lives, we must accept they were apart of our past and can't be apart of our future.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.

Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.