Quotes About Past

The jaws of darkness do devour it up All's cheerless, dark, and deadly. The best is past Thou'lt come no more Sally

All that attacks is memory, all I suffer is regret.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Indeed, men who manage to defeat time by anxiously safeguarding their tomorrow, by not allowing it to stray anywhere from the past, have in effect conquered death itself.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

We all have a collection of memories that we would happily lose, but somehow those are just the ones that insist upon sticking.

You know, Daddy, it isn't the work that is going to be hard in college. It's the play. Half the time I don't know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Americans have no past, while Europeans are loaded down by ancient customs, habits, and prejudices that shape their behaviour.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

It's all a romantic dream now. It's over. I made my choices long ago, and this is where they've led me.

Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.

Life has only one form: forgetting,

The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

There is no mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are all alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn -- or worse, indifference -- cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man dies not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

Everything is always in motion. Every day, every moment, your life path is either curving upward, or curving downward. Growing up we heard five times as many nos as yeses. Life has a downward pull. People on the success curve live in responsibility. People on the failure curve live in blame. People on the success curve are pulled by the future. People on the failure curve are pulled by the past. No matter where you are, at any moment you can choose to step onto the success curve.

One last thing about past and future—and I have saved the best for last. You can't change the past. You can change the future. Would you rather be influenced by something you can't change, or by something you can?

In the evolution of a town, neighborhood, or community, there comes a point when the decisions of the past, the conditions of the present, and the prospects for the future collide.

Scatter into the four winds and uncover Ying's secrets, as well as your own," Grandmaster had told them. "Uncover the past, for it is your future." Malao

Nothing we brought with us is from the present. Not our clothes, not our shoes. It's all old junk. Restored crap. We've been living in the past this whole time. In some sort of reenactment. And why?" She made a derisive sound. "You don't even know why.

I am sure of the here and now, this moment, and the next. I am sure of my past." That was ghost bird's castle keep, and it was inviolate.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

esto pasa desde que yo tengo memoria.

Luchaba entre varias memorias y la memoria de lo sucedido era la única irreal para él. De