Quotes About Time

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The worst time is always the present.

The "good old times"-all times, when old, are good.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

The past is never dead-it is not even past.

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion, as it had before.

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past; What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Let the past drift away with the water.

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

The past is a funeral gone by.

Never let yesterday use up today.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

There are two days about which nobody should ever worry, and these are yesterday and tomorrow.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present, nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.