Quotes About Past

The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Inscriptions here of various Names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdu'd; Yet wide was spread their fame in ages past, And Poets once had promis'd they should last.

He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

How beautiful the yesterday that stood Over me like a rainbow! I am alone, The past is past. I see the future stretch All dark and barren as a rainy sea.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

But you love that house.' 'I do, yes, but it holds so many memories of Monty.' 'Isn't that good?' I reason. 'In many ways, yes, it can be of great comfort . . .' She pauses, then gestures around her. 'But life isn't a museum, Nell. I don't want to live in the past.

she was alternately confused and angry at his lack of reference to their past, but she decided to let him take the lead. Either he had his reasons or he wasn't the man she once knew. And she was certain by now that he was still that man, only more.

Never was any such event [the French Revolution], stemming from factors so far back in the past, so inevitable yet so completely unforeseen.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure…. Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around," said the poet Adrienne Rich.

Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around

It is natural to worry about some things. Yet most of the things we worry about are things that will never happen or have already happened.

The unresolved painful experiences of our past lead us to make unhealthy decisions in the future.

But even after the first week, when Hart got out of the presidential race because of the Washington Post's threat to reveal a long-term relationship Hart had apparently been having with a prominent Washington woman, the media continued to embellish my past.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

As it seeks to rule the seas once again, China desires tangible symbols of its past as a naval power. Finding a sunken Chinese ship or coins in Kenyan waters would be powerful in this regard.

Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

In some ways, Herbert Hoover can be considered a millennial in spirit: young at the turn of the century, aware of America's past but deeply committed to building its future. His greatest passion and highest calling was service to others, and he measured his life's successes not in dollars and votes but in results achieved.

Character actors are becoming a thing of the past. They're just going by the wayside. They're just cutting through that caliber of acting.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.