Quotes About Past

Yet the tranquil image of suburbias of the past remains, and continues to influence us, as do traditional concepts of femininity....

Si no consigo huir de mi oscuro pasado, no tendré futuro".

The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!

Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future.

The physicist Eugene Wigner talked of "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics"—in delineating the present, disinterring the past, and baking a trustier fortune cookie.

It is our hope that writing releases us. Instead maybe it deepens the echo. We call out to our past and the call comes back. We are alone--and not alone.

In my dream, the ghost of history lies down beside me, rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm.

When I think of this now, I see how the past holds us captive, its beautiful ruin etched on the mind's eye

How not to think of loss, how it takes hold and grows: like lacuna snails, slow and deliberate, on a reed? Why is everything I see the past I've tried to forget?

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

That 'me' is becoming a memory, too.

I don't have the answer. But the one thing I do know...is that 'love' isn't just about loving what's right in front of you. The past...the future...maybe it's about holding all of them close to your heart. That's...what I think, at least. When I look at her...that's what I think.

He is conscious of the past and present injustices, but he knows that real remedies are to be found in contemporary Christian compassion, and not in compensatory justice.

Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.

The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Since I was a kid." "Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'" "Right.

history can play no significant role in image politics. For history is of value only to someone who takes seriously the notion that there are patterns in the past which may provide the present with nourishing traditions.

Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.

Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.

Man believes the future to be the natural development of the past. But the law of assumption clearly shows that this is not the case. Your assumption places you psychologically where you are not physically; then your senses pull you back from where you were psychologically to where you are physically. It is these psychological forward motions that produce your physical forward motions in time.

silently gazing beneath the stars. And in that fall of light from heaven to earth perhaps all our stories were told, all actions of the living and dead explained, and all time past present and future there revealed.

The truth is, like all places in the past, it cannot be found any longer.

Lord Melville was an efficient First Lord of the Admiralty, but his past was catching up with him.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are. GEORGE ELIOT, 1819—80