Past Quotes - Page 12

If you're going to make the past your present, be prepared for a lifetime of dust ...

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Karan Mahajan

One can never ever forget the one who they loved in their past and that to their First Love!!'Whenever and whomever it was, your experience with your first love is etched into your memory forever..

Kumar

There are times in one's life when a good book—the right book—feels like a voice speaking in the darkness,reaching out from the past;providing solace when all else seems lost.

Justine Picardie

Not all of the moments what you encountered in your mind are reminisced, the time will remember us.

Kurt Reiner C. Suarez

My present crush is crushing my past crush...Can I summarize "Crush Crushing & now Crushed

Akansh Malik

If you can be very impartial in analysing your own past, then you will have a much better future!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I like you, Mallory. And God knows you deserve a hell of a lot better than me.” He dipped his chin, laughing as he thrust his hand through his hair. “God. I suck at this. Can we just forget—”I snapped out of it. “You like me?”His gaze flew to mine. “Yeah, I do. And I know I’ve been with Paige and I’m not going to pretend that meant nothing, but it’s not how I feel for you. Not remotely like how I feel for you. And it’s not because of our past—because of you and I knowing each other for so long,” he said, and the words kept coming out in a rush. “At first, I thought that was why—this attraction I have to you. I thought it was because of everything we’d shared. And then the night I came to your place and you fixed me up, I thought it was just this physical thing.” Pink raced across his cheeks. “And it is most definitely a physical thing, but it wasn’t just that. I think part of me knew that from the very first time you said my name.”Now my pulse was pounding. He liked-liked me. Oh my God, this was unexpected. This was totally unplanned. It was an infinite, vast sea of un

Jennifer L. Armentrout

It reminded him of the truth—who he really was, and the fact that no matter how far he ran, his past would be right there with him.

Kayla Krantz

We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy even our differences in peace.

Ama Ata Aidoo

The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with an outsize intensity. These were the things that had been solidified in my mind by reiteration, that recurred in dreams and daily thoughts: certain faces, certain conversations, which, taken as a group, represented a secure version of the past that I had been constructing since 1992. But there was another, irruptive, sense of things past. The sudden reencounter in the present, of something or someone long forgotten, some part of myself I had relegated to childhood and to Africa.

Teju Cole

A person experiments in life and reflects upon those events in order to discover how to lead a meaningful life. We conduct a quest searching for the source our essential being. What we seek is inside us waiting for us to discover. Until we realize the vital inner source that provides direction for our life, all our efforts are in vain. The ego with its craving and fearful protection strategies is what prevents us from perceiving the transparency of the world in which we belong. When we cease clinging to the past and no longer daydream of the future and unreservedly accept whatever is occurring while sacrificing ourselves in service of other people our sense of self vanishes and we exist only as conscious and nonjudgmental witnesses of reality.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Since to follow a trail is to remember how it goes, making one's way in the present is itself a recollection of the past...onward movement is itself a return.

Tim Inglod & Jo Lee Vergunst

Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ("The past was her best friend")

Erik Pevernagie

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past

Steve Maraboli

Drinking the mystery punch that will always get her

Tanya Gambhir

The ego romanticizes the past to avoid the true romance of the present.

Alan Cohen

The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

Hanif Kureishi

When the hunt for new sources of energy had at one point got particularly frantic, one bright young chap suddenly spotted that one place which had never used up all its available energy was - the past. And with the sudden rush of blood to the head that such insights tend to induce, he invented a way of mining it that very same night, and within a year huge tracts of the past were being drained of all their energy and simply wasting away. Those who claimed that the past should be left unspoilt were accused of indulgingin an extremely expensive form of sentimentality.

Douglas Adams

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

There was no use wondering about the past.

Connilyn Cossette

Drugs may know how to numb a brain, but the past never forgets to resurface.

Kris Kidd

Leave my past... come in the present (PLEASE).

Deyth Banger

But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.

Iris Murdoch

I am born anew at each green fall of the die, and by die-ing I eliminate my since. The past - paste, pus, piss - is all only illusory events created by a stone mask to justify an illusory stagnant present.

Luke Rhinehart

Where does the past go when it changes?

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

That is who I was yesterday. Today I walk with God.

Shannon L. Alder

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

Paul Cézanne

When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on.

Nanette Mathews

Telling our personal story constitutes an act of consciousness that defines the ethical lining of a person’s constitution. Recounting personal stories promotes personal growth, spurs the performance of selfless deeds, and in doing so enhances the ability of the equitable eye of humanity to scroll rearward and forward. Every person must become familiar with our communal history of struggle, loss, redemption, and meaningfully contemplate the meaning behind our personal existence in order to draft a proper and prosperous future for succeeding generations. Accordingly, every person is responsible for sharing their story using the language of thought that best expresses their sanguine reminiscences. Without a record of pastimes, we will never know what were, what we now are, or what we might become by steadfastly and honorably struggling with mortal chores.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Isn't it weird that everything that's coming out of my mouth is going directly into the past?

Rebekah Crane

In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!

Mehmet Murat ildan

There are some things in the past that… that just aren’t meant to be viewed.

Rebecca McNutt

Those happy memories now added to my sorrows.

Melita Tessy

...let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him.

Oswald Chambers

Because in this way all I did was to accumulate past after past behind me, multiplying the pasts, and if one life was too dense and ramified and embroiled for me to bear it always with me, imagine so many lives, each with its own past and the pasts of the other lives that continue to become entangled one with the others.

Italo Calvino

Our pasts haunt us all.” I admitted, in a rare moment of perfect clarity.

Ross Turner

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

Fennel Hudson

Maybe the problem with holding onto memories so tightly is that they don’t allow us to make room for the future. Maybe the gentle decay of the past is a blessing that dulls the sharp blade of regret, allowing the possibility of rebirth.

Ryan Galloway

I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.Keep marching, boys and girls. Keep marching.

Rodman Philbrick

The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.

Steven Tyler

The past informs the present.

Fennel Hudson

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

James Rozoff

Never back, never back!... People don’t like going back, even if they must. I don’t like going back! And I’m not people! But I look back, sometimes, every so often, just to make sure I’m not leaving anything important behind. Like my tail! I can never be sure when I leave my tail behind me by mistake.

Emory R. Frie

Preserve the spirit of a ‘lost’ age, when time moved slower.

Fennel Hudson

Your past and your pain will certainly impact you,but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.

Scott Stabile

The problem is not that we forget the past. It is that we recall it too well. Children recall wrongs that enemies did to their grandfathers, and blame the granddaughters of the old enemies. Children are not born with memories of those who insulted their mother or slew their grandfather or stole their land. Those hates are bequeathed to them, taught them, breathed into them. If adults didn't tell their children of their hereditary hates, perhaps we would do better.

Robin Hobb

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

It appears that time has turned that young woman, who imagined herself a romantic heroine, into something of a comic character, but I remain fond of her. We are relatives, after all.

Siri Hustvedt

Your past does not define you but what does is who you are now and what your AIMING to BECOME!

Hopal Green

If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in there, then it is probable that some form of infidelity has occurred.

Steven Magee

You know that when your partner deletes their messages to a past lover after being accused of cheating, then it is likely that they were being unfaithful in some way.

Steven Magee

I really admire people who don’t need to live surrounded by lots of stuff. My bedroom is piled up with clothes and books, papers and photographs. I like to collect things, anything I can grab from wherever I’m travelling. I think it’s the sign of slight anxiety to always want something around you to represent a good moment you had, to hang on to the leftovers. But then they’re a pleasure to look at too, so it’s not all negative.

Isabelle Huppert

Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled memories into the open plains of a new horizon. ("Going back to yesterday")

Erik Pevernagie

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

Joyce Rachelle

The past is no further away than the last breath you took.

Robin Hobb

The past is truly an inoperable tumour that spreads to the present.

Steve Toltz

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

Hope Mirrlees

When the Lord disconnects you from your past, don't try to hook up with it again.

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

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