Past Quotes

And might it not be, continued Austerlitz, that we also have appointments to keep in the past, in what has gone before and is for the most part extinguished, and must go there in search of places and people who have some connection with us on the far side of time, so to speak?

~ W.g. Sebald

He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything.

~ Graham Greene

In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.

~ Sarah Vowell

The past is rich history. The present is sacred inscription. The future is yet to be written.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Today is the beginning of new history.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future.

~ Józef Piłsudski

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our life today is a history of tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But I can't rewrite history. I can only live with what's left.

~ Suzanne Young

Anyone who wishes to destroy humanity's past, desires to destroy its future.

~ Mario J. Lucero

People have done this before, but not us.

~ Ada Limon

Animals died when their time came, and meanwhile they didn't bother with clothes, or go to war, or get drunk, or judge other animals by there look. They didn't get afraid unless there was something to be afraid of. She herself came apart with terror over something she couldn't define or understand. She didn't get afraid of something. She just got terrified> Filled with anxiety. For no reason. For no reason she could name. Would name.Animals didn't look back with shivering shame at things in their past. They didn't quake at the thought of what lay ahead. They didn't try to make it into clique and feel sick with humiliation because they couldn't make it.

~ Mary Stolz

We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor.

~ Anton Chekhov

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.

~ John Fowles

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Whenever you find your mind wandering to the past or future, pull yourself back into the present. Making peace, working through forgiveness of yourself and others over whatever happened in the past will help you to not revisit the past. Acceptance is an important tool when dealing with all that happened before the present moment. Remember, you cannot go back and change anything that has happened. Nothing at all. It was, what is was. You are here now, in the present, and as such, have the power to affect only the present.

~ Akiroq Brost

Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go.

~ Debasish Mridha

A wise man never dwells in the past because he knows he belongs to the future.

~ Debasish Mridha

We can never live in the past, so everyday we begin anew.

~ Debasish Mridha

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them.

~ J.d. Stroube

She'd expected some backlash, it happened every time she shared her strength. But she hadn't anticipated so much raw anguish from Nico di Angelo… If this was only a portion of Nico’s pain… how could he bear it?

~ Rick Riordan

Leave off sniffing the carcass of your old life-do you enjoy unending pain? There is no shame in walking away from bones. Nor is there any special wisdom in injuring oneself over and over. What is your loyalty to that pain? To abandon it will not lessen you.

~ Robin Hobb

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

~ James Lovegrove

...one of the best ways to take the pain out of past experiences is to replace the hurt with gratitude.

~ Nick Vujicic

Why should I forget the pastexperience? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why should I forget the past experienced? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Why should I forget the past experience? I can only let go of the pain.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Comics know that time plus pain equals humor and that we can redeem even awful moments from the past by translating them into a shared experience.

~ Gina Barreca

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

~ Craig Groeschel

Don't think about your past, enjoy your present. And do your best. Reduce immosion, otherwise it will give you painful moments.

~ Sudeb Gharami

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

~ Sherman Alexie

Stop holding on to the broken pieces of that mirror even after you are bleeding so badly, I agree that the reflections you had imagined or saw once before were beautiful but sometimes holding on to them with a hope will just continue to hurt you even more and it will never get any better.

~ Akshay Vasu

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

~ Ricky Maye

There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.

~ Paulo Coelho

You didn’t understand the poem, but that was because it wasn’t for you. It was for me to understand the pain you put me through.

~ Dominic Riccitello

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.

~ Kemi Sogunle

This empty shell holds nothing but the echoes of what was.

~ Jenim Dibie

pain is pondering about past and wishing to relive those moments even after knowing it's impossible.

~ Shivangi Lavaniya