Quotes About Past

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factos that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

The past is preserved only in darkness, the future is not raised to the level of an image, as something which can be anticipated. It is the symbolic expression which first creates the possibility of looking backward and looking forward... What occurred in the past, now separated out from the totality of representations, no longer passes away, once the sounds of language have placed their seals on it and given it a certain stamp (Wesen und Wirkung des Symbolbegriffs).

We all know the old adage about why an elephant with all its power can be held in place by a small rope and peg. This is because elephants remember when they were babies and did not have the strength to pull the peg out of the ground. In short, elephants remain captive because their memories lie to them. They tell them that their past is their future—that what they experienced before will always be the reality that is before them.

We will never know peace if we lose the present because we are trapped in the past and paralyzed by the future.

The warrior remembers but does not look back. The future is coming from only one direction and that's forward. The warrior has learned that if their mind is lost in the past, they will lose their future.

Moments carry the momentum of the past and fuel the momentum for the future. Guy

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.

El futuro de Dios nunca llegará a nosotros a costa de nuestro carácter. Esta persona a la que yo antes respetaba mucho cometió el trágico error de dejar en su pasado lo que debió haber sido su futuro, y hacer de su futuro lo que debió haber sido su pasado.

A veces, prender fuego a tu pasado es menos alejarte de él, que elevarte por encima de él.

We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.

When I kiss her I am kissing 1903.

The person I once was, but lost, is the person you once knew.

Revenge may not always be sweet, but occasionally it hits a sweet spot that empowers the hurt party and allows a couple to put the past behind them. We all have a need for justice. However, it is important to distinguish between retributive justice and restorative justice. The former seeks only punishment; the latter engages in repair.

Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures, or strives to endure.

The memory is a living thing—it too is in transit. But during its moment, all that is remembered joins and lives—the old and the young, the past and the present, the living and the dead.

AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . . MADELEINE: I'm not your love . . . AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . . MADELEINE: Well, I'm a modern slave, then!

Only the past when you were happy is real.

He recites sardonically from Rossetti. "Look in my face. My name is Might-Have-Been; I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell.

Purity, especially bodily purity, is the seemingly innocent concept behind a number of the most sinister social actions of the past century.

The city was full of everything; it was an inspiring testament to man's ambition and a stark reminder of his animal past.

MEMORY IS A KIND of friendship, a friendship with the more necessary parts of oneself. How often do we reach for the past's genial knowledge to meet the unknowables of the present, asking once again that the anterior world might blossom into life and colour the current day? In this at least I cannot be alone.

The greatest tie of all is language . . . Words are the only things that last forever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.