Past Quotes

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

I have a checkered past. I'll take any eyeliner that comes my way.

If you keep walking past the barbers, eventually you'll get a haircut.

I know my past is not what my future holds.

The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?

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.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Hey, I drank milk that was a DAY past its expiration date. Now THAT is extreme!

Remembrance of things past.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

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.

There's no future without the past and anybody who doesn't really understand where jazz has come from has no right to try to direct where it's going.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

It is in our nature to travel into our past, hoping thereby to illuminate the darkness that bedevils the present.

I want a Sunday kind of love A love to last past Saturday night And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight

Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

It’s important not to be embarrassed by your past. The contradictions are part of what we are.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

I ain't lookin' at you dudes -I'm lookin' past you.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Humanity is moving in a circle. The progress in mechanical things of the past hundred years has proceeded at the cost of losing many other things which perhaps were much more important for it.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.