Past Quotes

Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, wit...

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin...

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

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or ra...

Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own ...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making th...

I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it ge...

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...

Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious conside...

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that...

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessf...

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small cle...

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received i...

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and pres...

Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many...

Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing wha...

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of know...

The worst time is always the present.

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.

It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for peop...

Freud, one of the grand masters of narrative, knew that the past is not fixed in the way that linear...

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wai...

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wai...

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...

The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness ...

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone...

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

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection ...

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in t...

I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't ...

He felt his presence on earth being denied, even as he stood there. He was forbidden access; the pas...

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking l...

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is jo...

Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movemen...

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East...

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them att...

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betr...

It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind o...

There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

In the space between yes and no, there is a lifetime. It’s the difference between the path you walk ...

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure...

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it bette...

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, ...

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

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago d...

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the...

We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are frag...

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

In the past, Google has used teams of humans to 'read' its street address images - in essence, to re...

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the pre...

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men...

I wish I was what I have beenAnd what I was could beAs when I roved in shadows greenAnd loved my wil...

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere...

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss th...

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not see...

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes ...

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public lif...

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that ever...

You have shared your secret. I think you will find it to be an unburdening in many other ways. You h...

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, ce...

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silen...

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past...

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when th...

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the...

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the m...

I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journ...

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by t...

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and...

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had ...

We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in ha...

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, ...

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side...

I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ...

It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past...

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite,...

Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already exper...

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the fu...

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but...

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the futu...

The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, exc...

Why slum it where people were burdened by yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that? By...

How do we seize the past? Can we ever do so? When I was a medical student some pranksters at the end...

The past is a distant, receding coastline, and we are all in the same boat. Along the stern rail the...