Quotes About Past

To pay homeage to our past is the only gesture that also includes the future.

Since her emotional reactions were without distinction, she had to fall back on the emotions of the past, great loves already lived and related, and over those she seemed to suffer and grow glad.

It is only by such extreme measures that the average man can remember something long ago; truly, not that he remembers, but that crime itself is the door to an accumulation, a way to lay hands on the shudder of a past that is still vibrating.

One has, I am now certain, to be a little mad to see into the past or the future, to be a little abridged of life to know life, the obscure life – darkly seen.

U prošlost se uvek vra?amo kad nam je stvarnost neprihvatljiva, a budu?nost neizvesna. Kad nam sadasnjica uhrozi ili poruši vrednosti u koje smo verovati I koje su nam ?inile smisao, mi u istoriji trazimo uto?ište I razloge za nadu.

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

No, no, Claude thought, the past never stops banging at the doors of the present. We pack it into tattered suitcases, lock it into rusting metal trunks beneath our beds, press it between yellowed pages of newsprint, but it hangs over us at night like a poisonous cloud, seeps into our shirt collars and bedclothes.

As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny—ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.

But the past is a dogged pursuer, a pack of wolves relentlessly running you down. Maybe it's better to turn and face it.

The good old days sucked.

You can no more cut yourself away from the past than you can cut out your own heart.

without forgiveness the world can never be released from the sorrows of the past….

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

Changing your life means changing your past.

Life is not simple, and therefore history, which is past life, is not simple.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history.