Quotes about past

"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past."

Steiner, George on past   

"You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see."

Stern, Richard Martin on past
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"The next day is never so good as the day before."

Syrus, Publilius on past   

"Posterity will pay everyone their due."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on past   

"The function of posterity is to look after itself."

Thomas, Dylan on past   

"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

Thomas, Edward on past
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"A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE)."

Unknown, Source on past   

"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Unknown, Source on past   

"If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way"

Unknown, Source on past   

"If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it"

Unknown, Source on past   

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

Unknown, Source on past   

"It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue."

Unknown, Source on past   

"The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going."

Unknown, Source on past
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"The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past"

Unknown, Source on past   

"Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future."

Waitley, Denis on past
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"The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past."

Webb, Mary on past   

"The past is at least secure."

Webster, Daniel on past   

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"The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes."

Weil, Simone on past   

"The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past."

Welch, John on past   

"The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?"

Whitman, Walt on past   

"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."

Wilde, Oscar on past   

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"Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up."

Wolfe, Charles on past   

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

Wordsworth, William on past
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"It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past."

Wright, Charles on past   

"sometimes you have to just take a chance. and if your scared of the past, just remember it's the past for a reason and it's not worth missing out on great things that could come in the future. take a chance, have no regrets."

Unknown on past
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"“What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today.""

Glasser, Dr. William on past   

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

Rich, Adrienne on past