Past Quotes

“Past glories are poor feeding.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“We all have to live with our past, but it doesn’t have to define us.”
― Nalini Singh, Shield of Winter

“The past was dwindling, like something shrinking to a speck in the rear-view mirror, and the future was shining through the windscreen, demanding her full attention.”
― Michel Faber, Under the Skin

“There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.”
― Kamila Shamsie, Kartography

“it is all clearer now than it was then. Rhea would say it is the vivid fabrications of an ageing mind. More likely, though, it is the clarity that comes from ageing - from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allow the present and paste to take their rightful place at the centre of our attention. The past is palpable to Sheldon now, in the way the future is to the young. It is either a brief curse or a gift before oblivion.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“الندم لا يمحو الماضي لكنه قادر على أن يفسد الحاضر”
― أنيس منصور, زى الفل أو أحزان هذا الكاتب

“When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child that we were and the souls of the dead from whom we sprang come and shower upon us their riches and their spells, asking to be allowed to contribute to the new emotions which we feel and in which, erasing their former image, we recast them in an original creation.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it’s even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.”
― John A. Ashley

“You have to get clear in your present life — clear of the junk from your past.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love of mystery and of the past was his undoing. He stumbled on things no mortal ought ever to know, and reached back through the years as no one ever should reach; and something came out of those years to engulf him.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

“There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“There are all types of love in this world, but never the same love twice”
― F.Scott Fitzgerald

“Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it.”
― Alamvusha

“The past marks on your slate only live on in your memory, if you allow them to remain. They can't affect your future if they're no longer there.”
― Melody Jackson, The Dragon Within

“I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.”
― michele vail, Unchosen

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”
― T.L. Rese

“You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and none of it can be undone.”
― The Fall

“The past, rich with it's pains and joys, shuffles before me, relieving the weary dullness of endless days. I rejoice; I agonize.”
― Rukhsana Ahmad, The Gatekeeper's Wife

“To horses, everyday is a new day to survive. It's a natural instinct. They don't think of the past or the future, only the present. So in terms of trying to teach your horse or build a special bond, patience is the key to every stall's door.”
― Sheikha Hissa Hamdan Al Maktoum

“. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars”
― John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems

“The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

“Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, for recovering from a traumatic situation is all a matter of how we think about what happened. It is not so much about what happened to us as what we make of the circumstance.”
― David W. Earle LPC- Love is Not Enough

“Such is the amazing power of stories to link us to our past and lead us all the way back to the present.”
― Margi Preus

“There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“The past is something that can not be fixed, but sets an example to fix the present to better the future.”
― John Yang aka Private83

“Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Every decision ever, to this moment here.”
― Wynandd e Beer

“You remain so silent,as carried away,
through mist of your thoughts,so dark and so deep,
and even awake same as when asleep,
waiting for enlightenment of a newborn day.

I'm bound to your silence,to the core i'm bound,
to delicate stillness,so cruel and so tender,
that despite of danger,soul yearns to surrender,
to that mesmerizing absence of the sound.

I resign everything i once knew so clear,
throwing in the wind fragments of my past,
they are worth so little,they're nothing but dust,
nothing to remember,and nothing to fear...”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic

“The past is not complete until you are finished with it.”
― donnie harold harris