Quotes About Past

I guess nostalgia is our sanctuary in sorry times.

The past is where we go when we are helpless; the past, no matter what the psychiatrists say, can't really hurt you much more than it already has, not like the future, which comes at you like a train around a blind curve.

The past is where we go when we are helpless; the past, no matter what the psychiatrists say, can't really hurt you much more than it already has, not like the future, which comes at you like a train around a blind curve.

The past was so past it hurt.

Lying makes a probem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

Lying makes a problem part of the future; truth makes a problem part of the past.

when you tell the truth your problems become part of your past, but when you lie they become part of your future.

Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.

A new beginning always leads to more memories.

Ever since she was a child, she'd struggled to sleep, but now night was even more her enemy. Sometimes she didn't sleep for days on end and could barely function. Other times she slept fitfully, her nightmares filled with the horrors of her past, the cases that haunted her. Work was her salvation

The past is behind you and there is nothing you can do to change it. However, you are in total control of your future.

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Listening to it now is like a personally guided tour through my past.

will always ride hard for Mick's Paul phase, summed up by the compilation Through the Past, Darkly, with its awesomely ridiculous octagonal cover.

I would have stayed in 1996 if I could have, but it wasn't my choice, so now I have to move either forward or back—it's up to me. Not changing isn't an option. And even though I've changed in so many ways—I'm a different person with a different life—the past is still me every minute.

Memories - you can't escape them, but you can't let them rule you either.

I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

The magical switch between the hawk and the hurricane reflects the very British experience of living in the past simultaneously with the present. Pentangle's music, in its swirling vortex of referents, the galliard shading into the raga, the ballad transmuting into the acid jam, unwittingly reflects these contested territories.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and real; the latter is necessarily amorphous and more easily guided by those who can manipulate human actions and beliefs.

History is man's best guess as to what the past would look like if everything had happened in chronological order.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

Charismatic authority, which Max Weber contrasts with "traditional" and "rational-legal" types of authority, is described by him as repudiating the past and representing a "specifically revolutionary force.

But I don't consider history to be a field. It's just all the stuff that's happened so far. You have to call it a field so people who study what happened in the past can get a job teaching blank. But it doesn't seem to me that it's a subject.