Quotes About Past

Nous sommes la première civilisation qui dispose d'un passé devenu immense. En 1940 personne ne connaissait les grottes de Lascaux et de Chauvet. En juillet dernier des chercheurs ont découvert un crâne vieux de sept cents millions d'années. La profondeur du temps a remplacé les dieux.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

There used to be so many good times, when I was your age." She ran her finger slowly round and round her cup, as though it were a fine-stemmed wine glass rather than a chipped and stained dining-room survivor, as though she were trying to recapture an echo of times past.

Something in me that was broken, cracked—becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.

A beast feels no remorse for the past nor hope for the future.

for myself, the past per se holds little interest, and the present offers only the profound malaise of a culture increasingly devoid of the protocols of self-reflection.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.

The past is experience, present is experiment, future is expectation so, lets use our experience in expectation for our expectation.

Your ability to associate your presence with past great mood memories opens an opportunity for interpersonal intimacy.

triggering happy memories of past positive moods and getting your conversation partner to identify those happy positive memories with your conversation, you pave the way for them identifying you with positive elements of their lives.

Tu as encore quelque chose à me dire ? lui demande-t-elle d'une voix neutre. Non, reconnaît-il, avec l'impression d'entendre ce petit déclic qui signale que le présent vient de se changer en passé.

When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent.

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

Do you often wear this dress?" He pointed to the black satin dress with the two yellow swallows. "I found it here when I rented the room. It must have belonged to the previous lodger." "Or perhaps to you, in an earlier life."

And then the next fifteen years fell apart: a few blurry faces, a few vague memories, ashes...

In those days, I thought I was happy.

Time had wiped the slate clean.

Tenía usted razón cuando me decía que en la vida, lo que cuenta no es el porvenir, sino el pasado.

trong cu?c ??i, không ph?i t??ng lai mà quá kh? m?i ?áng k?

Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all. You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

The whole room was like a museum of how people lived in olden times.