Past Quotes

I think it's more comforting to look in the past because you can understand it better, and there are labels for it often.

She looked at him gravely. "You cannot call back the river that has already flowed past you, Ruith. All you can do is be grateful for where you are in it.

I think there's nothing sadder than a pro athlete who plays past his prime.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.

I'm hopeless - all I know is that time is going past so fast.

I'm fascinated about how past events shape our perception of current events and how they make us the people we are.

I'm not someone who thinks about the past. I'm so busy thinking about what I'm going to do today.

The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past.

For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.

All I can do in the context of pursuing any sort of TV thing, and all I've done in the past, is offer your life at any given point in time to whatever situation you're in.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

Leadership both projects to the future and reflects upon the past. It bursts with possibilities, flaunts peculiarities, and occasionally defies probabilities.

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes.

This 2016 election better be about the future, not the past. It better be about the issues our nation and the world is facing today, not simply the issues we once faced.

Certainly being governor is an important job, and there are quality governors that could serve our country as president and have done so in the past.

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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.

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace.

A movie about the past is not the same as the past.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.

The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

Don't feel ashamed for having those feelings and those memories. What happened in the past can't be changed, but they can be a guide for what happens in the future.

With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.