Quotes About Past

Your present is responsible of each and every minute of your past and future

Alas! it is not the renunciation of our past and future selves that is difficult; it is the steady denial of our present self which makes the disciple.

Our greatest salvation comes when we learn to let go and forgive the people in our past.

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space.

The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.

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Tout ce qui se passe ressemble forcément à quelque chose qui s'est déjà passé.

home is always located in the past. It is not enough for me to say, 'Arlington.' Also, it is a noun used strictly in the singular. The word 'homes' is antithetical to the idea of home.

History is not the annals; it's what happens around us when we're unaware it's history.

When one remembers a scene from the past in which one is with a loved one who is now dead, it is not like a memory at all, but like a dream one is having before his death, a premonition. In this dream which preceded death, the person is tranquil and happy, and yet, without reason, you know he is to die. When we recall the dead, the past becomes a dream we are dreaming foretelling death, though in our waking moments we cannot properly interpret it or give it significance.

Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.

I found myself yearning for the time, no, not the time, for the life that has gone by.

The nostalgia I had come to treasure was a hypertrophied sense of the past as a place, a place with street signs and a figure atop a staircase that I recognized.

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

I find my past in my present, and from these forecast my future.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Il passato è come una candela posta a una distanza inadeguata: troppo vicina per renderti quieto, troppo lontana per confortarti.

at different times in the past, both the American Left and the American Right have stood for group-transcending values. Neither does today.

She was twenty-two, not nearly out of college, and she had a collection of old boyfriends that looked like a reunion from that old show Cops.

I was important to you," he said, seeing his angel, seeing his love of the game, and feeling like they had both become bigger than that dark night behind them.

The word divorce which stood stark in the future reached back into the past, how far?

Don't trust two; your ex and the market

Quizá la nostalgia sea un deseo; o el resplandor de un tiempo en el que creíamos ser felices.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. Source?