Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
- Aberjhani
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- John Acton
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
- Douglas Adams
The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.
- Cassandra Clare
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.
- Isabel Allende
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
- Martin Amis
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
- Sparky Anderson
While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
- Margaret Atwood
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
- Margaret Atwood
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
- Oscar Wilde
You should never allow your yesturday to use up too much of today. The past is gone, and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. - Drux Cruel
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have." Choo Co La Tah
"What are you? A fortune cookie writer?" Abigail
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
- James M Barrie
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
- Stephen Baxter
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
- Saul Bellow
The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.
- Walter Benjamin
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
- John Berger
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
- Henri Bergson
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
- Amy Bloom
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
- James Howe
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
- Carl Sandburg
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.
- Kristen Britain
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable..
- Nicholas Sparks
The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.
- Nicholas Sparks
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
- Nicholas Sparks
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
- Frederick Buechner
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
- Ken Burns
I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W Bush
Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
- Candace Bushnell
It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
- Jim Butcher
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
- Orson Scott Card
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?' Finnick asks.
No,' I say.
No,' Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.
- Suzanne Collins
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
- Jonathan Lethem
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
- John Jay Chapman
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
- Bill Cosby
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
- Stephen King
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
- Stephen King
See the BEAR of fearsome size!
All the WORLD'S within his eyes.
TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle;
The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
- Stephen King
The past is obdurate.
- Stephen King
The past is the father of the present.
- Agatha Christie
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
- Will Durant
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
- Robbie Coltrane
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
- Cyril Connolly
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
- Billy Corgan
The past is a finite resource.
- Douglas Coupland
The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
- Cressida Cowell
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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
What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.
- Ron Davies
I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
- Ted Dekker
The past isn't passed. It's still shaping the present.
- John Green
The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.
- Joanna Denny
Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.
- Ivan Doig
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- Milan Kundera
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
- Marguerite Duras
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
- Wayne Dyer
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?
- George Orwell
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
- George Orwell
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
- George Orwell
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- George Eliot
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
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
- Edna Ferber
The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
- L M Fields
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
- Richard Flanagan
They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking of links with the past is a painful thing.
- Victor Hugo
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
- Eric Foner
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
- Gayle Forman
The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
- Madeline Claire Franklin
The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.
- Diana Gabaldon
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.
- Neil Gaiman
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
- George R R Martin
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
- Sue Grafton
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.
- Martha Graham
Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.
- Simon R Green
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
- Nicole Green
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Nhat Hanh
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Nhat Hanh
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
- L P Hartley
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
- L P Hartley
While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
- Robin Hobb
The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
- Robin Hobb
I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.
- Jeffrey R Holland
The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead; we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.
- Jeffrey R Holland
The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard
Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard
The past is just something that's over.
- Christopher Isherwood
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
- Thomas S Monson
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
- Jon Bon Jovi
A brick can be used to represent a ruin, or the beginning of new construction. With a brick, the past is the future.
- Jarod Kintz
The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery).
- Jarod Kintz
The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.
- Jarod Kintz
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
- Lauren Kate
...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
- Jamaica Kincaid
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
- Jamaica Kincaid
The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.
- K C King
The past is all we know of the future.
- Barbara Kingsolver
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.
- Dean Koontz
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
- Dean Koontz
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
- Karl Lagerfeld
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.
Because they have no memory... because they are not human.
- Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
- Herman Melville
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
- Annie Lennox
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
- C S Lewis
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
- Alan Lightman
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant...
- Alan Lightman
Well--" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember," she said, "is that you were always such a dear little girl.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
- Barry Lyga
The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.
- Amin Maalouf
I guess it doesn't make sense to hate you anymore. As Lorelei is so quick to say, the past is the past and it can do us no harm unless we let it. (Jack)
- Kinley Macgregor
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
- Gavin Macleod
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
- Mao Tse Tung
The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
- Isaac Marion
Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities.
- Yann Martel
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still 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, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
- Daphne Du Maurier
I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.
- Corey Mesler
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
- Jonathan Miller
He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.
- Hope Mirrlees
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
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
- William Morris
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.
- Kate Morton
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
- Steve Nash
The past is where its supposed to be.
- Jason Newsted
In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.
- Hugh Nibley
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- Simone Weil
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
- Mike Norton
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
- Joyce Carol Oates
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
- Lauren Oliver
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running it's fingers up your spine, the best thing to do--the only thing--is run.
- Lauren Oliver
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
- Michael Ondaatje
For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.
- Michael Ondaatje
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
- Osho
Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.
- Ruth Padel
The past is always an invented land.
- Orhan Pamuk
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
- Adele Parks
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
- Michel Patini
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Harold Pinter
The past is never where you think you left it.
- Katherine Anne Porter
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.
- Marcel Proust
Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?"
"Not your life, Greg, your past."
"Is there a distincition?"
"Of course there is. In a very real sense, everyone's past is a dream; the past isn't a real thing you can reach back and touch; it's just something in your head. Your life, which is what's going on here and now at this table, is as real as anyone's..
- Daniel Quinn
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.
- T L Rese
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
- Adrienne Rich
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everythign has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
- Gregory David Roberts
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
- Richard Roeper
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R D Ronald
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
- Charles Rosen
And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
- Jacques Roubaud
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
- Salman Rushdie
When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.
- Marisa De Los Santos
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
- James Thurber
Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.
- Rebecca Serle
Life...we understand it differently at different stages. It's what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.
- Jeanette Winterson
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
- Dan Simmons
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
- Matthew Simpson
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
- Zadie Smith
...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
- Zadie Smith
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead...
- Danielle Steel
You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
- Bram Stoker
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
- Gustav Stresemann
The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.
- Steve Toltz
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
- Robert Towne
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
- Pierre Trudeau
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale Turner
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
- Lisa Unger
the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!
- Ali Vali
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- Robert Penn Warren
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
- Mary Webb
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
- H G Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
- H G Wells
The past is but the past of a beginning.
- H G Wells
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
- Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West
The past is what the present is doing now.
- Rowan D Williams
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill
- Aberjhani
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- John Acton
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?
- Douglas Adams
The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to the guilty.
- Cassandra Clare
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.
- Isabel Allende
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
- Stephen Ambrose
When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable
- Martin Amis
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
- Sparky Anderson
While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
- Margaret Atwood
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
- Margaret Atwood
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
- Oscar Wilde
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
- Oscar Wilde
You should never allow your yesturday to use up too much of today. The past is gone, and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is history written in stone that can't be altered. The future is transitory and never guaranteed. Today is the only thing you can alter for certain. Make the most of it. - Drux Cruel
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have." Choo Co La Tah
"What are you? A fortune cookie writer?" Abigail
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
- James M Barrie
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.
- Stephen Baxter
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.
- Simone De Beauvoir
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
- Saul Bellow
The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.
- Walter Benjamin
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
- John Berger
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
- Peter Berger
In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.
- Henri Bergson
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
- Wendell Berry
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
- Amy Bloom
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
- Corrie Ten Boom
The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
- James Howe
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
- Carl Sandburg
Human beings are naturally flawed when it comes to time and memory. The past is forgotten, or it is believed bad things will not recur, and people become bound in their current problems. That which afflicted the grandfathers of their grandfathers is a distant, dim thing, and not as important as present concerns, no matter how trivial.
- Kristen Britain
Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable..
- Nicholas Sparks
The past is the past. You cannot change it, but you can learn from it.
- Nicholas Sparks
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
- Nicholas Sparks
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
- Frederick Buechner
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
- Ken Burns
I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W Bush
Maybe the past is like an anchor holdong us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.
- Candace Bushnell
It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.
- Jim Butcher
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
- Orson Scott Card
What's going on down there, Katniss? Have they all joined hands? Taken a vow of nonviolence? Tossed the weapons in the sea in defiance of the Capitol?' Finnick asks.
No,' I say.
No,' Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is in the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.
- Suzanne Collins
The past is still visible. The buildings haven't changed, the layout of the streets hasn't changed. So memory is very available to me as I walk around.
- Jonathan Lethem
The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.
- John Jay Chapman
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
- Bill Cosby
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
- Stephen King
It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?
- Stephen King
See the BEAR of fearsome size!
All the WORLD'S within his eyes.
TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle;
The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
- Stephen King
The past is obdurate.
- Stephen King
The past is the father of the present.
- Agatha Christie
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
- Will Durant
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
- Robbie Coltrane
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
- Cyril Connolly
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
- Billy Corgan
The past is a finite resource.
- Douglas Coupland
The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?
- Cressida Cowell
The past is a pebble in my shoe.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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
What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.
- Ron Davies
I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
- Ted Dekker
The past isn't passed. It's still shaping the present.
- John Green
The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach.
- Joanna Denny
Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.
- Ivan Doig
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- Milan Kundera
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
- Marguerite Duras
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
- Wayne Dyer
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
- Martin Luther King Jr
The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?
- George Orwell
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.
- George Orwell
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable what then?
- George Orwell
If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
- George Eliot
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
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
- William Faulkner
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
- Edna Ferber
The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it.
- L M Fields
The idea of the past is as useless as the idea of the future. Both could be invoked by anybody about anything. There is never any more beauty than there is now. There is no more joy or wonder or sorrow than there is now, nor perfection, nor any more evil nor any more good than there is now.
- Richard Flanagan
They were moments when she was suddenly reminded of her child, and perhaps also of the man she had loved; the breaking of links with the past is a painful thing.
- Victor Hugo
I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.
- Eric Foner
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
- Gayle Forman
The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.
- Madeline Claire Franklin
The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.
- Diana Gabaldon
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.
- Neil Gaiman
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
- George R R Martin
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin
So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care to preserve. Our recollection of the past is not simply distorted by our faulty perception of events remembered but skewed by those forgotten. The memory is like twin orbiting stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.
- Sue Grafton
Looking at the past is like lolling in a rocking chair. It is so relaxing and you can rock back and forth on the porch, and never go forward.
- Martha Graham
Nothing is ever really lost. The memories of good friends and good times are always there, never more than a thought away. In a sense, they never really stopped happening. Every moment you ever treasured, every friend you ever valued is still there, separated from us only by time; the past is still happening and always will be. It's only we who have moved on.
- Simon R Green
One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.
- Nicole Green
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Nhat Hanh
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
- Nhat Hanh
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
- L P Hartley
The past is another country. They do things differently there.
- L P Hartley
While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
- Robin Hobb
The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
- Robin Hobb
I plead with you not to dwell on days now gone nor to yearn vainly for yesterdays, however good those yesterdays may have been. The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead and remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.
- Jeffrey R Holland
The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead; we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.
- Jeffrey R Holland
The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard
Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard
The past is just something that's over.
- Christopher Isherwood
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
- Mick Jagger
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
- Thomas S Monson
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
- Jon Bon Jovi
A brick can be used to represent a ruin, or the beginning of new construction. With a brick, the past is the future.
- Jarod Kintz
The past is the past. I believe that people can change, under the right conditions (like plastic surgery).
- Jarod Kintz
The past is always more innocent, because it exists peacefully in the unreachable and unchangeable parts of the imagination.
- Jarod Kintz
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
- Lauren Kate
...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.
- Jamaica Kincaid
The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.
- Jamaica Kincaid
The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.
- K C King
The past is all we know of the future.
- Barbara Kingsolver
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.
- Dean Koontz
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
- Dean Koontz
I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.
- Karl Lagerfeld
But the past is passed; why moralize upon it? Forget it. See, yon bright son has forgotten it all, and the blue sea, and the blue sky; these have turned over new leaves.
Because they have no memory... because they are not human.
- Herman Melville
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.
- Herman Melville
The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and no, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.
- Annie Lennox
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
- C S Lewis
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
- Alan Lightman
Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant...
- Alan Lightman
Well--" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember," she said, "is that you were always such a dear little girl.
- Curtis Sittenfeld
Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.
- Barry Lyga
The past is bound to be fragmentary, bound to be reconstructed, bound to be reinvented. It serves only to collect the truths of today. If our present is the child of the past, our past is the child of the present. And the future will be the harvester of our bastard offspring.
- Amin Maalouf
I guess it doesn't make sense to hate you anymore. As Lorelei is so quick to say, the past is the past and it can do us no harm unless we let it. (Jack)
- Kinley Macgregor
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
- Gavin Macleod
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.
- Mao Tse Tung
The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
- Isaac Marion
Let that be a reminder to you that the past is one thing, but what we make of it, the conclusions we draw, is another. History can be many things, depending on how we read it, just as the future can be many things, depending on how we live it. There is no inevitability to any historical occurrence, only what people will allow to take place. And it is by dreaming first that we get to new realities.
- Yann Martel
We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still 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, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
- Daphne Du Maurier
I miss you because memory
is a kind editor.
The past is a long scroll and
in it is the story of us,
told with gentle metaphor, and
words that bring
you back and back, even as you
lie there, lying.
- Corey Mesler
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
- Jonathan Miller
He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.
- Hope Mirrlees
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
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
- William Morris
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.
- Kate Morton
What happened in the past is just that, the past. Champion or not.
- Steve Nash
The past is where its supposed to be.
- Jason Newsted
In the business of scholarship, evidence is far more flexible than opinion. The prevailing view of the past is controlled not by evidence but by opinion.
- Hugh Nibley
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
- Simone Weil
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
- Mike Norton
Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?
- Joyce Carol Oates
The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
- Lauren Oliver
I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging at your back and running it's fingers up your spine, the best thing to do--the only thing--is run.
- Lauren Oliver
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
- Michael Ondaatje
For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.
- Michael Ondaatje
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind; don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.
- Osho
Every choice is a loss. The past is not where you left it.
- Ruth Padel
The past is always an invented land.
- Orhan Pamuk
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.
- Adele Parks
The 1984 European Championships were held in France and that was something important. I felt on form then, even though I was practically always injured at all the World Cups. It's a great memory. But in any case, the past is past.
- Michel Patini
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Harold Pinter
The past is never where you think you left it.
- Katherine Anne Porter
And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect must prove futile. The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling. And it depends on chance whether or not we come upon this object before we ourselves must die.
- Marcel Proust
Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream?"
"Not your life, Greg, your past."
"Is there a distincition?"
"Of course there is. In a very real sense, everyone's past is a dream; the past isn't a real thing you can reach back and touch; it's just something in your head. Your life, which is what's going on here and now at this table, is as real as anyone's..
- Daniel Quinn
The past is fantasy, and the future is science fiction.
- T L Rese
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
- Adrienne Rich
The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. But everythign has its cause and its meaning. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
- Gregory David Roberts
Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.
- Richard Roeper
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
- R D Ronald
The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
- Charles Rosen
And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind
- Jacques Roubaud
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
- Salman Rushdie
When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.
- Marisa De Los Santos
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
- James Thurber
Look, you think I like history because I'm fascinated with the possibilities, with how it could have happened, but you're wrong. I like it because it's the one thing we actually know in life. The past is the only thing we can count on. The present? The future? They're anyone's guess.
- Rebecca Serle
Life...we understand it differently at different stages. It's what is interesting about getting older, you realize your relationship with the past is always negotiable. There is a lot of freedom in that, because you realize you can go back to what you did such a long time ago. You can talk with the dead, talk with your lost self, your disappeared self, and you can visit those places again, and understand it differently. That makes a huge difference.
- Jeanette Winterson
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
- Dan Simmons
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
- Matthew Simpson
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
- Zadie Smith
...the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
- Zadie Smith
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead...
- Danielle Steel
You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so?
- Bram Stoker
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
- Gustav Stresemann
The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.
- Steve Toltz
One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.
- Robert Towne
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
- Pierre Trudeau
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
- Dale Turner
The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
- Lisa Unger
the past is known, but the future can sometimes be troublesome!
- Ali Vali
The past is always a rebuke to the present.
- Robert Penn Warren
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
- Mary Webb
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
- H G Wells
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
- H G Wells
The past is but the past of a beginning.
- H G Wells
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
- Jessamyn West
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
- Jessamyn West
The past is what the present is doing now.
- Rowan D Williams
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Israel Zangwill
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