Quotes About Past

You recently read me a quote by Faulkner: "The past isn't dead, it's not even past." So much of our adult lives is influenced by what happened to us as children. It is all still there, the memories, the feelings, and fears, stored just beneath the surface in the hidden crannies of our cortex.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Belki de insanlar? en çok bölen ?ey, kimilerinin her ?eyden önce geçmi?te, kimilerinin de yaln?z içinde bulunduklar? dakikada ya?amalar?d?r.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past

Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago. Decisions, especially bad ones, create their own kind of momentum, and momentum can be a bitch to stop, as every athlete knows. Even when we vow to change, even when we sorrow and atone for our mistakes, the momentum of our past keeps carrying us down the wrong road. Momentum rules the world.

He's telling himself, I was so close. I was there. The finish line! He's living in the past, and I'm in the present. He's thinking. I'm feeling. Don't thing, Andre. Hit harder.

He's telling himself, I was so close. I was there. The finish line! He's living in the past, and I'm in the present. He's thinking. I'm feeling. Don't think, Andre. Hit harder.

Fiecare duce, în noapte, o amintire a lui.

She felt the breath of history on her cheek.

If there is something the corona crisis has taught, it should be that nudging consumers to voluntarily mend their ways is a thing of the past.

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

In the past, I had my idols but today I enjoy learning from all the soccer I watch.

hope, although rooted in the past and acted out in the present, receives its energy from the future.

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.

Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

I felt the weight of the past at the beginning of my career of singer.

I can remember weird things from way back, but not what I had for breakfast.

Whether or not you welcome it, moving house requires you to make choices about the past as you move into the future. What of all of your bits of stuff is truly valued? What should be left behind?

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, and I think inside the music is clues to what is happening with the people.

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.