About The Past Quotes

It is okay of talking about the past, as long as there's no bitterness and anger. It only gives you a heart attack. It won't change the past either.
- Ann Marie Aguilar

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.
- Paulo Coelho

Do not concern yourself with what you know or what you do not know. Do not think about the past or the future, merely allow God's hands to write the surprises of the present on each new day.
- Paulo Coelho

Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it.
- Ernest Hemingway

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
- Isaac Asimov

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
- Oscar Wilde

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
- Jacques Barzun

I can't talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it's very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.
- Jorge Luis Borges

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Everyone has a messed-up family to one extent or another but we all have an obligation to rise above it. Live in the present and stop sniveling about the past.
- Emily Giffin

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.
- John Cale

Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one's end....Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.
- J L Carr

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.
- Dave Chappelle

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.
- Michael Connelly

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
- Mason Cooley

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
- Billy Corgan

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
- Ice Cube

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
- Virginia Woolf

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.
- Laura Dave

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.
- Jennifer Donnelly

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
- Umberto Eco

But... what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.
- Bret Easton Ellis

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.
- Sherilyn Fenn

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.
- Charles Frazier

The pas has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
- Eckhart Tolle

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.
- Kenneth Grahame

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.
- Claudia Gray

To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the futurre. The idea is simply not to allow yourself to get lost in regrets about hte past or worriees about hte future. i fyou are firmly grounded in the present moment, the past can be an object of inquiry, the object of your mindfulness and concentration. you can attain many insights by looking into the past. But you are still grounded in the present moment.
- Nhat Hanh

There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.
- Joanne Harris

As scientists, we keep an open mind, but we have to base our ideas about the past on archaeological evidence.
- Zahi Hawass

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.
- Aleksandar Hemon

An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.
- Tom Hopkins

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
- Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
- Khaled Hosseini

That was a long time ago, but it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
- Khaled Hosseini

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.
- Michel Houellebecq

What I'm going to tell you now," he said, "may sound incredible. But then, when you're not accustomed to history, most facts about the past DO seem incredible.
- Aldous Huxley

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.
- Joyce Meyer

Are you, are you happy?"
I am today," she said.
Maybe that's what really mattered? Living in the now, and all that crap about the past being over? The future hasn't happened, and today is forever? These aren't the kinds of statements that belonged beside question marks.
- Stephanie Klein

Every President that went to China, I would meet them and have dinner and talk about the past and the future. That was in the '70s.
- Jet Li

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
- Ernest Mandel

We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.
- Lisa Mangum

Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.
- Frank Mccourt

Depression is a red herring," said Nariman. "I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there is not much percentage in the future.
- Rohinton Mistry

W. H. Auden once suggested that to understand your own country you need to have lived in at least two others. One can say something similar for periods of time: to understand your own century you need to have come to terms with at least two others. The key to learning something about the past might be a ruin or an archive but the means whereby we may understand it is--and always will be--ourselves.
- Ian Mortimer

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
- Lewis Mumford

And right then I realised that she was right. The good, the bad, that's just life. Let it go. There's no need to fret about the past. The question is: who are you going to share it with tomorrow?
- Vicki Myron

What hadn't been realized in the literature until now is that merely to describe how severely something has been tested in the past itself embodies inductive assumptions, even as a statement about the past.
- Robert Nozick

I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.
- Atarah L Poling

I don't talk about the past.
- Prince

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz

We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being caught in lives of our own making that we never wanted. Breaking out, trying again, wondering why the past comes with us, wondering how to talk about the past at all.
- Jeanette Winterson

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
- Charlie Sheen

I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.
- Zoe Trope

My life is not just about the past.
- Jeannette Walls

It is futile to talk too much about the past... like trying to make birth control retroactive.
- Charles Erwin Wilson