The Past Quotes
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.
Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
You can't change the past.....why bother?...linger too much in the thought, you only get pulled down....Tomorrow is yet to come...GET PREPARED, that is one day you can change.
If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.
The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.
To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.
He went to hell and back, to shut the door of his past, he would not let that door be opened again by others.
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined.
She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.
Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.
Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.
A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.
You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them
There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.
Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.
One day I was thinking about my past, It was really impossible to lose because the every moment in past was Mind blowing. <3
It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.
Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.
Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.
This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.
Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark." — Orion
No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.
Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.
It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.
Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita
I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.
Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.
