Quotes About Past

Au moment où je commençais à oublier, l'oiseau sinistre est venu battre des ailes autour de moi et il a donné du bec dans la plaie de la blessure des souvenirs. Subitement la honte du passer, la mémoire de mes fautes ont surgi devant mes yeux. En proie à une frayeur qui me donnait envie de crier, je ne pouvais plus rester en place.

Just when I was beginning to forget, that bird of ill-omen came flapping my way, to rip open with its beak the wounds of memory. All at once shame over the past and the recollection of sin unfolded themselves before my eyes and, seized by a terror so great it made me want to shriek, I could not sit still a moment longer.

Far from it, I felt convinced that their reprimands were without doubt voices of human truth speaking to me from eternities past; I was obsessed with the idea that since I lacked the strength to act in accordance with this truth, I might already have been disqualified from living among human beings.

Those days, as I remember them now, were the last in which the dying embers of happiness still glowed.

I yearned for everything long gone

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

History is merely gossip.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.

Beware of trying to patch up a present refusal to walk in the light by recalling past experiences when you did walk in the light.

Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the "might have been" into a wonderful culture for the future.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

I loved a girl once,' said he. 'Vorshula was her name. She has been lying in the graveyard of Seidewinkel six months now...

As we see it, the whole outlook brought about by the scientific revolution should have been--must be--a phase, only, of the evolution of consciousness. An absolutely indispensable phase, but a passing one. What is riveting it on to us and preventing us from superseding it, because it prevents us from even imaging any other kind of consciousness, is precisely this error of projecting it back into the past.

The record of rocks is a script containing stored memories of earth's past.

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: you find the present tense, but the past perfect!

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

El pasado retornaba en oleadas; huracanado pasado de mierda. Ni que fuera tan importante. Ni que valiera para nada más que para estar ahí depositado, sedimentado en la memoria, diciendo que ya no somos los que fuimos.

If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.

Estamos juntos solo porque queremos; es una relación que no está basada ni en un pasado común ni en promesas de futuro que quizá no podamos cumplir. La parte de mí que tal vez habría deseado algo más de un hombre murió el día que me fui de Berlín.

I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair. I wasn't prepared for that.

Pru," he began lamely, "I think we need to talk about the past, to talk about what happened between us." "Not today," she told him firmly. "There are things that need to be said," he insisted. "Perhaps so, but they have waited eight years, I don't think it's essential that we delve into them immediately, just because it is suddenly convenient for you.

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age