Quotes About Past

At the risk of sounding like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of the past

Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or think we do. It's a song we've heard.

You can't change the past. You can't change other people. You can change you though. You narrate this story. So start to write a new chapter.

The past is never gone. It just hides.

I am petrified of where my mind can go, because I know where it has already been.

That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can't be tamed.

You see, when you look at events in history there is a two-way perspective. Forwards and back. But at the time everything is one way.

4. There is absolutely nothing in the past that you can change. That's basic physics.

I need to tame the past. That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet. But history you have lived is different to history you read in a book or on a screen. And some things in the past can't be tamed.

The regrets she had been living with most of her life were wasted ones.

I need to tame the past. That is what history is, the teaching and telling of it. It is a way to control it and order it. To turn it into a pet.

wanted somewhere where I didn't have to feel his ghost. But the truth is, it only half-works, you know? Places are places and memories are memories and life is fucking life.

All you can do with the past is carry it around, feeling its weight slowly increase, praying it never crushes you completely

Everything in life is uncertain. That is how you know you are existing in the world, the uncertainty. Of course, this is why we sometimes want to return to the past, because we know it, or we think we do. It's a song we've heard.

People now think of the early 1800s being an industrial time of smoke and factories but, as with every age, it was a carousel of many periods at once. The past stays and echoes even as modernity roars ahead.

saya rasa kehidupan selalu menyediakan alasan agar kita tidak mati, seandainya kita memasang telinga baik-baik. Alasan-alasan itu bisa berasal dari masa lalu - mungkin orang-orang yang membesarkan kita, sahabat-sahabat, atau para mantan kekasih - atau dari masa depan - ada kemungkinan-kemungkinan yang kita matikan.

I need 'closure' as people say these days. Though you can never close the past. The most you can do with it is accept it.

There is only the present. Just as every object on earth contains similar and interchanging atoms, so every fragment of time contains aspects of every other. Yes. It is clear. In those moments that burst alive the present last for ever, and I know there are many more presents to live. I understand. I understand you can be free. I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. I am no longer drowning in my past, or fearful of my future. How can I be? The future is you.

Past and future were myths. The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present.

The past is always just a memory; the future, just a dream. The only real moment is the Now.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

the regrettable past should be left to languish wherever it took itself when it was finished being the enjoyable present

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.