Past Quotes - Page 6

The question shouldn't be, 'Are we guilty about our Colonial past?' it should be, 'Why aren't we more guilty about our corporate present?

Sara Sheridan

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of.

Mindy McGinnis

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

Lisa Wingate

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Kat Von D.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

Lisa Wingate

My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.

Emily Murdoch

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

Faraaz Kazi

Everyone’s past has ways of sneaking up on them. You just have to be in a place in the present that you’re strong enough to deal with when your past comes to visit.

K.K. Hendin

we use to regret over our past... but sometimes i wonder why ???because everything we did in past was best from our side, well in case of both doing and thinking...

Lovely Goyal

Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely different from what they were then, that every unpleasant circumstance attending it ought to be forgotten. You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Diane Setterfield

Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

Jack Kerouac

No one can escape their past. The sins we've committed... and the sadness we've caused... No matter how far we run, our past remains, as ever-present as the moon in the sky. It looms in wait... for the day when we are forced to face it. But only in doing so can we truly make peace and move on in hope towards tomorrow.

Phoenix Wright

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

Charleston Parker

What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.

Robert Prisig

That's when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I'd finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché.

Cindi Madsen

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

Steve Maraboli

Dont look back , there is a darkness of your past

Muhammad Saqib

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

Raymond Chandler

Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

Anne Tyler

I set my face toward the sun again, and I think about my old life—the one I feel as though I’ve abandoned somehow. It hurts to think of it that way. And even though I know it wasn’t perfect, I look back now, and all I see is perfection. Every soft whisper, every spoken word, every gentle touch—it’s all perfect. Time won’t let me see it otherwise. They’re all just perfect memories—perfect, untouchable moments that came and went so softly that they almost feel as if they were always just a dream.

Laura Miller

That K was hesitant in love does not mean that his love was in any sense lukewarm. He was unable to move, despite the violence of his emotion. And since the impact of his new emotion was not so great as to allow him to forget himself, he was forced to look back and remind himself of what his past had meant. And in doing so he could not but continue along the path that he had so far followed.

Sōseki Natsume

You cannot be who you were.

D.J. Molles

Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us of the sacrifices we’ve offered and those we have yet to make.

Tom Piccirilli

Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.

Calvin W. Allison

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Sara Sheridan

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

Robert Hellenga

Sarah’. She had thought they had thrown that bit of history into the trash, and the trash into the incinerator. But apparently ‘Sarah’ had only been thrown into a plastic bag and left in the closet under the bathroom sink, where the packet gathered mold and fungus and slowly acquired a signature stink. That stench was now slowly escaping from between the gap of the doors and the bathroom floor. Sarah was Siddharth’s ex.

Shweta Ganesh Kumar

The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

Aileene Mhar Jabarani

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

Chuck Palahniuk

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit. The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct, Several European countries and a number of states of the American Union sterilize the criminal and the insane. This is not sufficient. The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.

Nikola Tesla

The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

Katherine Reay

Every time the song looped, all I heard was the part about the lies - and how they weigh you down. Tonight, as I drive toward Detroit in my Jeep, I know what those words really mean. It's not just the lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from - it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

Colleen Hoover

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

Stephen King

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life.

Colleen Hoover

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

Lisa Gardner

Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?

Alexandra Duncan

Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.

J.L. Berg

If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse

Josh Stern

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

Emma Donoghue

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

J.D. Stroube

For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

Miguel Ruiz

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met. This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new each time; and each time he hopes, though in vain, to achieve an exhaustive image of the Truth of human existence. The quality of beauty is in the truth of life.

Andrei Tarkovsky

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

William Kingdon Clifford

Let's burn our past down and make something better from its ashes.

Kirk Diedrich

Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future...

Shelly Thacker

I don't want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.

Ade Santi

Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future.

Robyn Bavati

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, when I say this, if it appears so only because it is our nature to make a heaven out of places to which we can never return.

Yiyun Li

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

Kate Morton

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

Françoise Sagan

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Chang-rae Lee

I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past.

Tanya R. Simon

Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade.

Raine Cooper

The past is no good if you can't learn from it; therefore, no sense in dwelling on it.

Arians Karlovičs

Think like you were before prevents it from being the person who was to be after that.

Davi Oliveira

When you learn to love your past it becomes the wings that allow you to fly rather than the burden you drag along behind you.

Victoria Reynolds

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

Wilfred James Dolor

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