Past Quotes

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!...What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds?

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

We had our thing. It is a really good memory but now we're older. Things change.

Our past is the forge upon which we are hardened and tempered, to prepare us for the present. We are like a fine blade that must be hammered into shape before it can be ready to make its finest cuts.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.

For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Some years I'm the coolest thing that ever happened, and then the next year everyone's so over me, and I'm just so past my sell date.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.

Being a teen is past for me. Worrying about the world and my place in it is not.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

The left puts a lot of faith in a lot of people in the past that were dismal failures that they think are the greatest people who ever lived.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.

I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

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.

My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

You can be aware of your past without being it.

Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.