Quotes About Past

The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.

No es el futuro sino el pasado el que te mata, el que vuelve, el que te atormenta y socava y acaba efectivamente contigo.

I saw your face, honey. You were more than a little flustered. You looked as if you'd gone ten rounds with the ghost of Christmas past.

I heard Nakhtmin's voice in my mind, that to be forgotten was the greatest gift that history could give.

No Hapsburg princesse could legitimize a woman of unguarded morals. If du Barry had possessed any sense, she would have seen that she was the mistress of the past while Antoinette was the princesse of the future.

Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.

I took a kind of ex-boyfriend initiative. I guess I wanted to know whether the past was still breathing inside of us. Because inasmuch as I had been irrelevant to their destiny for such a long time, I felt they had become irrelevant to my life for too many years. Unconsciously, something inside me rejected this notion and wanted to make it right.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

I became aware of a very peaceful atmosphere, which was not what I expected. I do not claim to be psychic, but I expected to pick up a trace of violence there. There was nothing, just the wind rustling the leaves, desolation and peace. All the action was long past and I could not recover any of it.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Memory is the basis of individual personality, just as tradition is the basis of the collective personality of a people. We live in memory and by memory, and our spiritual life is at bottom simply the effort of our memory to persist, to transform itself into hope, the effort of our past to transform itself into our future.

Pero el secreto! Vivir sin conocer el secreto del pasado... No saber quién fue, qué fue lo que fue... Resignarse así a ignorar... No tener la solución...

La imposibilidad de poder replantearte el pasado y rectificarlo, es una de las limitaciones más crueles de la condición humana. La vida sería más llevadera si dispusiéramos de una segunda oportunidad.

Toda a dor prolongada insulta o seu esquecimento.

This is not to imply that a return to the rigid values and limited choices of the past would be preferable—even if that were a possibility, which it is not. The complexity and freedom that have been thrust upon us, and that our ancestors had fought so hard to achieve, are a challenge we must find ways to master.

the past can never be literally true in memory: it must be continuously edited, and the question is only whether we take creative control of the editing or not.

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Always speak of the past, gratefully. Of the future, excitedly.

Your tormentors, past, present, and future, are lost in their own confusion and anguish. They didn't set out to hurt you, but to make some sense of a world that was hurting them.

sequences follow intention, shapes shift when you blink, and pasts are remade in each moment.

All expenditures, whether from the heart or the wallet, in the past or present, big or small, can be viewed as either "depleting" or "enriching." Enriching works for me.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, and perform in the moment." (Moments: Making Your Life Count For What Matters Most, Mike Van Hoozer)

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.