Quotes About Past

And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.

Of course, after nearly a quarter of a century, the questions about our distant pasts have all been posed and we're left with 'how was your day?' and 'when will you be home?' and 'have you put the bins out?' Our biographies involve each other so intrinsically now that we're both on nearly every page. We know the answers because we were there, and so curiosity becomes hard to maintain; replaced, I suppose, by nostalgia.

Like I said, I'm fine. I don't ever think of her.' And I didn't ever think of her, except from time to time.

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas." James Salter, Quemar los días

nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost

A veces uno es consciente de cuándo están produciéndose los grandes momentos de su vida y a veces los descubre al mirar el pasado. Tal vez suceda lo mismo con las personas.»

I thought it best, finally, to start seeing where I've been rather than where I'm going.

Two qualifications are needed for heaven: forgiveness and holiness. The one cancels our sinful past; the other prepares us for our sinless future.

in the past decade have we really been able to quantify and qualify the extraordinary relationship between physical fitness and mental fitness.

That was how long ago?

El yo presente "es" y el yo anterior "fue", y, en verdad, lo que "fue" no es idéntico a lo que "es". El lamento y la culpa son el resultado de equiparar el yo presente que "es" con el yo anterior que "era", pero en realidad ya no es; ambos no son iguales.

You may suppose that time is only passing-away, and do not understand that time never arrives. . . . People only see time's coming and going, and do not thoroughly understand that being-time abides in each moment. Being-time has the quality of flowing. . . . Because flowing is a quality of time, moments of past and present do not overlap or line up side by side.

Transference is essentially a compulsion to return to our past in order to clear up emotionally backlogged business.

the therapy had indeed been troubling, for she had scratched the surface of her fears, and found beneath it a bottomless pit of anxiety and despair. The life she led was fraught with confusion, and she felt she no longer knew who she was. She remembered who she used to be and what she once wanted, but that was all gone now, and she could envision no future.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

Creí enamorarme un par de veces, pero en realidad seguía enamorado de alguien que ya no estaba conmigo.

Maturity is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past the present and the future all at once.

old houses move in their sleep like the dreaming, remembering limbs of very old people. Boards whisper, steps cry out softly to the whispering remembrance of footfalls long gone to earth. Mantelpieces strain gently in the darkness beneath the ghosts of old Christmas stockings. Joists and beams and rafters hunch lightly like the brittle ribs of old women in their sleep: the heart recalling, the worn carpet slippers whispering down the halls again.

Nowhilism: a rejection of the progress made in the past and ignorance of reality in the present

Through his perambulations, he had lost the thread of connection with his family, and by the time I had met him, some three years previous to these events, there was almost no communication between Stoker and his three brothers, their father having died the year before I came into his life.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

Still, past assholes could make a person feel skittish. You had to be careful. It could all suddenly be different than you thought it was. A big possible mistake could be hidden anywhere, ready to blow up everything, same as stepping on a land mine.

You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have the past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.