Quotes About Past

The Land looks deep inside itself to find the new Sky and there is no refusal for the one chosen. The past life is over and must be left behind, for the Land needs its Sky to watch over it and the Sky can have no other than the Land.

The past always fails those who grasp at it.

Esa parte de mí que todavía no se había marchado de Tarbean quiso echarle mano a su bolsillo.

Había aprendido a dormir con cosas mucho peores que aquello. En el pasado, antes de que llegara él. Antes de que ella tuviera su nuevo nombre, dulce y perfecto.

It's like what Teccam wrote, 'The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought …'" "'… but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought,

I am. We are. She is. He was. They will be.

Y lo olía con más exactitud de la que muchos lo veían, ya que lo percibía en su interior y por ello de manera más intensa: como la esencia, el espíritu de algo pasado que no sufre la perturbación de los atributos habituales del presente, como el ruido, la algarabía, el repugnante hacinamiento de los hombres.

Aunque no contaba todavía treinta años, madame Gaillard ya tenía la vida a sus espaldas.

The past is desirable, more often than not, because it can make no demands.

Well I haven't fucked much with the past, But I've fucked plenty with the future. - Babelogue

Everything comes down so pasteurized everything comes down 16 degrees they say your amplifier is too loud turn your amplifier down are we high all alone on our knees memory is just hips that swing like a clock the past projects fantastic scenes tic/toc tic/toc tic/toc fuck the clock!

Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.

People who are not historians sometimes think of history as the facts about the past. Historians are supposed to know otherwise. The facts are there, to be sure, but they are infinite in number and speak, if at all, in conflicting, often unintelligible, voices. It is the task of the historian to reach back into this incoherent babel of facts, choose the ones that are important, and figure out what it is they say.

Memory plays an essential part in this process of working out a sat-isfactory relationship between past and present. It is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling the past. But it is a faculty that functions in a wide range of ways. Memory can operate comprehensively or selectively, more or less accurately, more or less honestly. It is always accompanied, moreover, by forgetting and invariably supplemented by invention.

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

Memory, therefore, not simply as the resurrection of one's private past, but an immersion in the past of others, which is to say: history - which one both participates in and is a witness to, is a part of and apart from. Everything, therefore, is present in his mind at once, as if each element were reflecting the light of all the others, and at the same time emitting its own unique and unquenchable radiance.

He has been marked by the past, and once that happens, nothing can be done about it. Something happens, Blue thinks, and then it goes on happening forever. It can never be changed, can never be otherwise.

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.

Time moved in two directions because every step into the future carried a memory of the past

hameye ma dar barkhord ba gozashte chenin raftar mikonim,sagha va adamha

He finds a fresh sheet of paper. He lays it out on the table before him and writes these words with his pen. It was. It will never be again. Remember.

It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having to ask for explanations.

That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.