Quotes about past
past live-in-the-moment gone
The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. Nhat Hanh
past risk phases
As in the past, the costs and risks of the coming phases of the industrial economy were to be socialized, with eventual profits privatized ... Noam Chomsky
past may might
We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time. John Ashbery
past sandwiches
What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?
past want next
Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one. Joe Strummer
past games enjoyment
I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game. Joe Montana
past
I don't live in the past.
past cities glitter
The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are. Joe Meno
past different turns
It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you’re alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice. Jodi Picoult
past starting-over use
There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.
past looks maps
I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
past forgiving important
Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
past sight voice
I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do. John Grisham
past echoes history
The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in. John Greenleaf Whittier
past historical survival
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. Ken Burns
past history who-we-are
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are.
past benefits hindsight
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere. Kazuo Ishiguro
past thinking people
I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others. Kristen Stewart
past history knows
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
past google would-be
There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody. Oprah Winfrey
past grows ifs
If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.
past your-past your-future
You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.
past heaven world
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past. Oliver Goldsmith
past grudge
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past. Margaret Atwood
past
A movie about the past is not the same as the past.
past light voice
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.
past ice feet
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.
past doors closed-doors
The past is a closed door.
past animal knows
God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
past stories care
All writers must go from now to once a upon a time; all must go from here to there; all must descend to where the stories are kept; all must take care not to be captured and held immobile by the past.
past habit quaint
I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
past echoes darkness
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.
past looks vertigo
He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.