Quotes about past

"In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere."

Gorky, Maxim on past   

"I never look back, I look forward."

Graf, Steffi on past   

"We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?"

Guare, John on past   

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

Hartley, Leslie P. on past   

"Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past."

Hedge, Francis Herbert on past   

"If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change."

Hewison, Robert on past   

"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."

Hoban, Russell on past   

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

Horace on past   

"Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened."

Johnson, Gerald W. on past   

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

King Jr. Martin Luther on past
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"The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired."

La Farge, John on past   

"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on past   

"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."

Moon, William Least Heat on past   

"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past   

"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

Orwell, George on past
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"They spend their time looking forward to the past."

Osborne, John on past   

"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now."

Osmond, Marie on past
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"The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late."

Ovid on past   

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

Penn, William on past   

"We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time."

Pound, Ezra on past   

"The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train."

Proust, Marcel on past
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"There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated."

Proverb, French on past   

"Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten."

Proverb, German on past
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"Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either."

Raddal, Thomas H. on past
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"Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on past   

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."

Reagan, Ronald on past   

"Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events."

Rich, Adrienne on past   

"The past does not equal the future."

Robbins, Anthony on past
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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

Sandburg, Carl on past   

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Santayana, George on past
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"Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!"

Saying on past   

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Schuller, Robert H. on past
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"Look back, and smile at perils past."

Scott, Sir Walter on past
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"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done."

Shakespeare, William on past
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"We have seen better days."

Shakespeare, William on past   

"What is past is prologue."

Shakespeare, William on past   

"Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself."

Sidney, Sir Philip on past   

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."

Signoret, Simone on past   

"The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing."

Sontag, Susan on past