The Past Quotes

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts.

All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

We all have appointments with the past.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

But before looking to the future, let's glance back at the road we've traveled these past two years because that is the source of much of the optimism we are all feeling about the future.

Memory creates a hallucination of the past, desire creates a hallucination of the future.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

And I think it was the outline of that church tower at Belaugh against the sky which gave me a passion for churches so that every church I've past since I've wanted to stop and look in.

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Knowledge is telling the past. Wisdom is predicting the future.

The past doesn't have anything to do with the future, only if you let it.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

It takes leadership to improve safety. And I started off the movement in my time, but the person who has done more over the past 20 to 30 years and who has led it is Professor Sid Watkins.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

Stop whining; start enjoying. And when you look back at the past, make sure you're smiling.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for new goals.

I'm a very private person. What I did in the past or what somebody heard me do or has a bootleg of me doing...well, if you have a bootleg, then I did it.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.

I am interested in circulating past iconography in the present in order to get to the future.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

Stefan Sagmeister says that nobody innovates past forty-five, but I think he's wrong. I want to keep doing it.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.