Quotes by Authors - Page 49

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.
Lillian Hellman
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
Leslie Poles Hartley
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
Joan Didion
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf
The road was new to me as roads always are going back.
Sarah Orne Jewett
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
Rose Chernin
As the dew to the blossom the bud to the bee As the scent to the rose are those memories to me.
Amelia C. Welby
Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order ... the continuous thread of revelation.
Eudora Welty
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear endearing touching precious. At least the past is safe-though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past because we have survived.
Susan Sontag
What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.
Mary Jo Putney
These are the stories that never never die that are carried like seed into a new country are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.
Meridel Le Sueur
Truth has no beginning.
Mary Baker Eddy
I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.
Burton Hillis
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.
Anonymous
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
The past is never completely lost khowever extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.
Gordon Wright
Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Ralph Blum
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
Henrietta Zolde
Never let yesterday use up today.
Richard H. Nelson
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.
André Maurois
I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
Ne'er look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de Cervantes
The worst thing you can do is to try to cling to something that's gone or to recreate it.
Johnette Napolitano
It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.
George Eliot
One must be thrust out of a finished cycle in life and that leap is the most difficult to make-to part with one's faith one's love when one would prefer to renew the faith and recreate the passion.
Anaïs Nin
Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!
Anonymous
The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries rinsed of debris sweetened judiciously and served in small portions not very often.
Laura Palmer
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Rossetti
Not the power to remember but its very opposite the power to forget is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
Patricia Hampl
Forget the past and live the present hour.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.
Ellen Gilchrist
Truth however bitter can be accepted and woven into a design for living.
Agatha Christie
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.
Søren Kierkegaard
Past: Our cradle not our prison and there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration not imitation for continuation not repetition.
Israel Zangwill
We can never go back again that much is certain. The past is still too close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again and that sense of fear of furtive unrest... might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.
Daphne du Maurier
The past is never dead-it is not even past.
William Faulkner
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye to restore it and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Fairless Barber
There are two kinds of stones as everyone knows one which rolls.
Amelia Earhart
The good old days. The only good days are ahead.
Alice Childress
The Golden Age was never the present Age.
Thomas Fuller
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
Sir James M. Barrie
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.
Lillian Eichler Watson
Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.
Doug Larson
Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?
Lillian Hellman
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and of humanity.
Alfred Adler
Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to shut it again on something solid.
G.K. Chesterton
Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
Milton R. Sapirstein
I am not absent-minded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G.K. Chesterton
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Peter De Vries
That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby
Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
Gluttony is an emotional escape a sign something is eating us.
Peter De Vries
Curiosity is a lust of the mind.
Thomas Hobbes
Of all modern notions the worst is this: that domesticity is dull. Inside the home they say is dead decorum and routine outside is adventure and variety. But the truth is that the home is the only place of liberty the only spot on earth where a man can alter arrangements suddenly make an experiment or indulge in a whim. The home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks.
G.K. Chesterton
I have come back again to where I belong not an enchanted place but the walls are strong.
Dorothy H. Rath
The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.
Lydia Sigourney
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern