Quotes About Past

The memory be green.

Past cure I am, now Reason is past care,And frantic-mad with evermore unrest.

Every part about you blasted with antiquity.

What's done can't be undone.

A love that is true to living persons and existing realities is steadfast and fine. But I saw then, for the first time, that a love which was fastened upon the dead and true to nothing but a past that was finished, is not a good nor true emotion. If it went on too long, it could become an incubus, throttling a man from the real life of the present, which is the life that we were fashioned to meet and experience.

would not be for the sake of a woman five years dead whose image in my mind was now as evanescent as the smell of lavender in an old drawer.

We need to realize that without some notion of historical recurrence, no one can meaningfully discuss the past at all.

The past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.

The flies of some other summer darkening its windowsills.

He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure: No fears to beat away - no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure.

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off things And battles long ago.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Dovevano cambiare molte cose perché il passato avesse un futuro.

The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: "Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life.

It was not that he didn't remember he once had another sort of life. But, like the old yellowing photograph at home, which he did not burn, it was sad to think about, and far away, like another world that had disappeared forever.

When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time

Memories do not change the law.

Döden försvann efter hand tillsammans med tiden allt längre bort i fjärran, och minnet var det enda som blev kvar, minnet som är det allra mest värdefulla vi har.

I'd imagine you'd be uncomfortable, with your heart full of so many forgotten things.

A quatre-vingts ans, notre avenir est derrière. Devant, il n'y a que le passé.

What is our life: (Pause.) it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment?

I sometimes think the past is a dangerous place to go looking for happiness," said the Indian man sitting next to Serena.

The failure of memory, then is as much sociological as it is historical.