Past Quotes

Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don’t let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Madame de Stael

Old times never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.

George E. Woodberry

We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.

Dr. Abram Sacher

People are always asking about the good old days. I say why don't you say the good "now" days? Isn't "now" the only time you're living?

Robert M. Young

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Arthur H. Campton

Enjoy yourself. These are the "good old days" you're going to miss in the years ahead.

Anonymous

The past is our very being.

David Ben-Gurion

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The universe is made of stories not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

Sarah Orne Jewett

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Brendan Francis

Yesterday I lived today I suffer tomorrow I die but I still think fondly today and tomorrow of yesterday.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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.

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.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.

Leslie Poles Hartley

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 that which we possess fully and in whole.

Isidor Eliashev

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

Leonard L. Levinson

Our life is like some vast lake that is slowly filling with the stream of our years. As the waters creep surely upward the landmarks of the past are one by one submerged. But there shall always be memory to lift its head above the tide until the lake is overflowing.

Alexandre Charles Auguste Bisson

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No past is dead for us but only sleeping love.

Helen Hunt Jackson

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

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

John Greenleaf Whittier

That sign of old age extolling the past at the expense of the present.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

Anonymous

The past not merely is not fugitive it remains present.

Truth has no beginning.

Mary Baker Eddy

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men.

J. C. F. von Schiller

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

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

In times like these it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Gustave Flaubert

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

Jose Ingenieros

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.

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.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Fortunate are the people whose roots are deep.

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

Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

The past is a guidepost not a hitching post.

L. Thomas Holdcroft

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments failures and even tragedies and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

W. Robertson Neicoll

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.

Never let yesterday use up today.

Richard H. Nelson

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

Alfred North Whitehead

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Henrietta Zolde

The past is but the beginning of a beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

H.G.Wells

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted wholly vain If rising on its wrecks at last To something nobler we attain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

No star is ever lost we once have seen We always may be what we might have been.

Adelaide Proctor

What's past is prologue.

William Shakespeare

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