Past Quotes

“There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.”
― Emily Thorne

“Absolution is the washing away of sin. The promise of rebirth. And the chance to escape the transgressions of those who came before us. The best among us will learn from the mistakes of the past, while the rest seem doomed to repeat them. And then there are those who operate on the fringes of society, unburdened by the confines of morality and conscience. A ruthless breed of monsters whose deadliest weapon is their ability to hide in plain sight. If the people I've come to bring justice to cannot be bound by the quest for absolution, then neither will I.”
― Emily Thorne

“The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken?”
― Emily Thorne

“I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.”
― lorraine zago rosenthal, Other Words for Love

“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every day, no vision for the future. For the most part, I remained hidden away, deep within myself. Sometimes, I'd go a week without talking to anybody.”
― Haruki Murakami, Yesterday

“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.”
― Emily Thorne

“Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feeling as the slow gurgling stream slipped by: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“I saw this moment as attached by threads to eternity and woven between all the other braided moments of my past and my future.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you.”
― Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard

“All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

“Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you can hear them echoing forever within the second sphere.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

“There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, Take Me Tomorrow

“The fact that you made worse decisions in the past shouldn't be an excuse to make bad decisions in the present.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.”
― Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions; except for the ones you place upon yourself.”
― Noel DeJesus

“We don’t escape our pasts, you know,” Madd said. He sounded defeated. “Never. We can never escape what we are.”

“Maybe not. But I think we can escape what other people try to make of us. We can decide our fate for ourselves.”
― Tali Spencer, Thick as Thieves

“I miss my old life”
― Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey

“One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.”
― Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

“Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to "keep your mind on your line," as the saying went.”
― Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

“Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.”
― Anthony Liccione

“I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back across the ages, weaving a picture on their blackness so real and vivid in its details that I could almost for a moment think that I had triumphed o'er the Past, and that my spirit's eyes had pierced the mystery of Time.”
― H. Rider Haggard

“If using 'was' could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then i wanna say, I was sorry, for everything...”
― Allwyn Jose

“From one moment to another memory steps back to rediscover the past”
― Munia Khan

“If using "was" could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then I wanna say, "I was sorry, for everything"..”
― Allwyn Jose

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

“Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade.”
― Raine Cooper

“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