Past Quotes

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't beThe familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skinYour head's under water when you learned to swimOn a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

~ Sanhita Baruah

Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness.

~ Kemi Sogunle

I got married. A bright past is ahead of me!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.

~ Rodrigo Duterte

A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.

~ Núria Añó

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

~ Arundhati Roy

Today is the day to cast your worries on God and breathe in new life. Your past does not define who you are today.

~ Gabriella Marigold Lindsay

She tried to remember all the times she had spoken to him. She replayed every moment she could remember at the beach last week. Not once had she led him to believe that she liked him improperly. And yet, last night, he had appeared as if she had invited him. She had given herself so willingly, so lasciviously, that he must have thought she had desired him all along. Perhaps she had, or perhaps she had not realised how pleasurable intimacy could be.

~ Mahita Vas

Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated that past, as the positive present.

~ Robert Black

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

~ Jovan Dučić

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

~ Kiran Desai

Yet I have come to believe that while the past is unchangeable, our perceptions of is are malleable...

~ Nicholas Sparks

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why? She studied him, her eyes grave. Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

~ Stephen King

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,The path of its departure still is free.Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;Nought may endure but Mutability!

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.

~ Wade Davis

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

~ Ann Brashares

Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return to us after a long absence and instead of the old, familiar trees were to find in our souls English gardens and stone walls -- that is to say, other loves, other tastes, other interests, they would gaze upon us sadly and tenderly for a moment, wiping away their tears, and then return to their tombs to rest.

~ Teresa De La Parra

Sometimes there is no choice but to walk into your own house. Far away, you think, and you do not want to see. You come home and you say do not tell me. You say, I have hunted the elk all over the snowfields of the Selway, and I do not want to know what happened here. And then there is a morning you walk in and take a look in your own house, like any traveler.

~ William Kittredge

We cannot change or put right the past, it is our choice whether to be happy in this very moment. The present is all we have and problems only live in the past or the future.

~ Kate Skylark

Life is limited by death to make us hurry, though we can't change the past, atleast we change for good and to never repeat the same mistakes again.

~ Jinnul Jr.

I can´t change my past, or predict my future. But i can shape my present.

~ Armin Houman

This poem was meant to be unwritten. But I am writing it now and have thereby changed destiny.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind.

~ Joe Abercrombie

But to find a lingering unread missive from someone no longer living, and someone whose life had been so deeply entwined with one’s own, raised the possibility that the past could never be a fully settled matter. It meant that your own past could be altered without your action or consent, that the story of your self that you continually told back to yourself could be revised by force, making you into another person who you would, perhaps, prefer not to become.

~ Dexter Palmer

Sometimes you want to change the past by going from the future in the past. But sometimes you find that everything which you have done, it's not better but it becomes worst but why?(11.22.63 - Better Check it out!)

~ Deyth Banger

You can’t change the past, but all of us have the power to change the future.

~ Michael Hyatt

Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.

~ Robin Hobb

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

~ Margaret Mitchell

You lost the ability to see beauty in others because your vision got clouded by someone who sold you a fantasy that no one could live up to.

~ Karishma Magvani

Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.

~ Ricky Maye

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

~ Ricky Maye

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

~ Ricky Maye

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

~ John Fowles

I think we might’ve met in a past life. You know, one of those you pass and think, wow you’re kind of beautiful. Just one of those.

~ Dominic Riccitello

To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.

~ Debasish Mridha

I believe that anytime someone messes with the mind, they mess with the soul. Historically they go hand-in-hand, for a long time ago, the word mind was another word for soul. Contextually, people might not see the relationship between the mind and such events from the past and present, but there is a connection. They all involved tampering of the value of the mind.

~ Lauren Lola

Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again.

~ Kamand Kojouri

I will continue to exist in all these little moments. where we took the first dip of love and my heart skipped a beat. Our first walk, the first touch which burnt my soul, that first rain, the first kiss, the first comfortable silence between us. How many years may pass, Whenever I am sitting near the window and its raining or whenever I am sitting by a fireside and its cold, There will always be a piece of me which reminds me of you. It will stay in this moment forever.

~ Akshay Vasu

I'm not very good at knowing what other people are thinking, but I do know that you can see tragedy, real tragedy, sitting just inside a person's gaze. You can almost always see where a person has been if you look hard enough.

~ Mo Hayder

In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive...

~ Oksana Rus