Quotes About Past

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

I colori da noi tutti fervidamente amati, attestano la nostra venerazione del passato. In qualità di socialisti nazionali riconosciamo nella bandiera il nostro programma. Nel rosso ravvisiamo l'idea sociale del movimento, nel bianco l'idea nazionalista, nella croce uncinata la missione di combattere per la vittoria dell'uomo ariano antisemitico

Perché non ero nato cent'anni prima? Al tempo della guerra, quando un uomo valeva qualcosa anche se non teneva bottega?

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events

all of us bearing wounds from our past that we no longer felt obligated to conceal because we had one another.

What rivets me to history is seeing / acts of survival turned / to rituals of self-hatred. This / is colonization. Unborn sisters, / look back on us in mercy where we failed ourselves, / see us not one-dimensional but with / the past as your steadying and corrective lens.

A dream of tenderness wrestles with all I know of history

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.

The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.

Elections are about the future and not about the past.

I exist only in the past.

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Sometimes experience is an obstacle because you cast your future based on your past experience.

The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.