Quotes About Past

the scarred face of a clone, the features an echo of so many faces from Vader's past. Rex. Cody. Fives. Echo. The roster of names moved through Vader's mind, each of them a trigger for a memory, each of them a ghost from his past.

You can't outrun the history train

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory. When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and poignant as any place on a map, it was, in truth, another time—another country.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

I'm hoping it gets easier at some point," I told him. "I still feel awful about the things we said. The things we didn't say. Do you think it's possible to make peace with the past?" "Hell. You can try, I guess. But I'm not sure anyone gets forgiven. Not even then.

but none of it was real any more. We lived on a ghost farm.

To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up. But

I had the pure sense that I couldn't ever truly lose the past, or forget what any of it had meant.

real business of what it meant to live in those time periods came alive for

as if whatever life she's had before now doesn't take up space or trouble her in the least.

Many other dear ghosts were glinting from the past, winks of light playing along the rims of our wineglasses, reminding us of how reckless they'd been and how magnificent.

Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too—that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, its Eternity. In India, they use the word karma, for lack of any better term. It isnt what you did in the past that will affect the present. Its what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

To this end, the invaders are making increasing use of the social sciences and technology, and to some extent the physical sciences as well, to improve and refine their action. It is indispensable for the invaders to know the past and present of those invaded in order to discern the alternatives of the latter's future and thereby attempt to guide the evolution of that future along lines that will favor their own interests.

he who forgets will be destined to remember...

eres todo lo que te queda por delante, sí, pero también mucho de todo lo que te quedan por detrás.

A veces te duele más el vacío del futuro que del pasado.

But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data on which you depend - without it you would not be yourself. Impossible to share and no one else could view it anyway. The past is out ultimate privacy; we pile it up, year by year, decade by decade, it stows itself away, with its perverse random recall system.

My understanding of the past has been savagely undermined.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.