Quotes About Past

Nostalgia is a powerful and cunning witch. If you are not careful, she will seduce you back into the past and such the sap of your life. Then you'll find yourself empty-handed with only misty dreams for comfort.

Essentially, the tragedy of past revolutions has been that, sooner or later, their doors closed, "at ten in the evening.

That's history. I say history because it happened in the past.

Paleontology of conservatism and theology of morality. All this is a thing of the past, since the world inevitably goes into the shell of a black hole of selfishness.

The world and the brain strive for the future, while the soul gets stuck in the past. The heart aches with the present.

Tout ce qui était n'est plus; tout ce qui sera n'est pas encore. Ne cherchez pas ailleurs le secret de nos maux.

Finally, what good is reincarnation if you can't remember all your past lives?

Focus on your destiny and never waste too much time dwelling on past events.

My only fear is that my absence has gained more weight and popularity than my presence. The past is praised while the present is dragged through the mud.

Sometimes, we find peace by becoming forgetful of the past events. That is truly the bright-side of forgetting negative things in our lives.

The present is short lived. Difficult to define it without disturbing the past and the future events.

There is no peace without forgetting past events.

You will only look for past events when the present is unsatisfactory. The secret to enjoying the present moment is to make it more satisfying than the past. Go beyond the limits.

Women joked amongst themselves: 'Why do you think a bride cries on her wedding day? It's for the love that this marriage is putting an end to for all eternity. Men may think a woman has no past- "you were born and then I married you"- but men are fools.

History is the third parent.

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The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

We have to live in today," she said, speaking to herself as much as to Beth. "Worrying about the future just steals the now from us." "So does living in the past, doesn't it, Ellie?

But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten.

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

Quelle [est] la quantité minimale de passé nécessaire à la production de sens?

The argument of this book is that America's class history is a more complicated story than we've previously considered. The past informs the present.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

In the past, most civilizations held that reality consists of both a natural order and a moral order, integrated into an overall unity. Therefore, our knowledge of reality was likewise thought to be a single, unified system of truth.