Quotes about Past, page 5

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about past

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Quote by Edna Ferber about past

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Quote by Robert Redford about past

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

Quote by Patrick Swayze about past

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Quote by André Breton about past

Future is everything that past has forgotten.

Quote by Soren Aabye Kirkegaard about past

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Quote by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre about 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.

Quote by Russell Hoban about past

Memory brings the past where it belongs: in the future.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about past

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Quote by Nikolai Vasilievici Gogol about past

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Quote by André Maurois about past

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Quote by Jim Bishop about past

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.

Quote by John Clare about past

To the Moon Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze on you, And then as now you hung above those trees Illuminating all. But to my eyes Your face seemed clouded, temulous...

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about past

Infinite These solitary hills have always been dear to me. Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the distant horizon opening inner silences and interminable distances. I plunge in thought to where my heart, frightened, pulls back....

Quote by Giacomo Leopardi about past

I wish... I wish... To let ourselves be killed again monotonically By the arrows thrown by Cupid. I wish... A drop of scented rain To wash the black past, everythinhg that was once. I wish... Your heart to be a white sheet of...

Quote by Florin Muscalu about past

Think about the past and discover who you are.

Quote by Razvan Claudiescu about past

I search carefully the past with my old eyes, but I see nothing.

Quote by Italo Svevo about past

Perhaps psychologically speaking, the verdict that they had given me would have been one that expresses deficiencies. How normal a man be whose mind lives in the past?

Quote by Gabriel Petru Baetan about past

Architecture of the nightClear architecture of the night, discerned with difficulty in the landscape... What hour- shaking being silent in the tower of darkness -death and life together devour them? Nothing untouched and healed. And useless bells...

Quote by Aura Christi about past