Quotes About Past

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

you don't need ghosts to be haunted. Memory does that just fine without any supernatural help at all.

She could feel herself pressing the details into memory, saving them like dried flowers kept in a spinster's chest, relics of a past that might have been, of a future that never was.

I am not going to think about it. It was ugly, but it's over, and I'm not going to think about it.

The word ghost sounds like memory. The word therapy means exorcism

You translate it, please. I have worked hard to forget what Greek I once knew.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning. —H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future

El dolor mismo es el único elemento de la memoria; porque el placer termina en sí mismo

Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay. ... The great fact [is] that in their day the great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past.

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

The most visceral science fiction always takes place in the past and focuses on the humdrum

What was I before the war? It's hard to remember that far back. But I think maybe I was human.

Stories are where memories go when they're forgotten...

Time is spent never bought. Minutes count when seconds blur. Memories are past that's caught. Imaginings are future's lure."Cass and Silver Rainbow-