Past Quotes

Photography is never real, it’s merely one of many ways of telling the truth.

~ John Thai

Past shouldn't always be treasured, becausePresent and Future become trashed.

~ Bradley B. Dalina

Past experience doesn't go away, so the secret is to accept, embrace and learn from it. However the key to the secret, is to keep it at bay and be open minded about the future from the second after the experience and never let the experience be the bar or commission of anything thereafter.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

~ Ibrahim Emile

Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.

~ Elizabeth George

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

~ Lisa Wingate

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you’re plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won’t come out straight.

~ Lisa Wingate

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

~ Lisa Wingate

Learn from the past, log the lessons from the past, butleave the past!

~ Elizabeth George

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

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

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

I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life...

~ Sanhita Baruah

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

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

Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

~ Anthony Liccione

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

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

NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

~ Hillary Depiano

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

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

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

Although one may direct the future or past through the onerous linkages of temporal cause and effect, riding the breaking waves of the present and never once overstepping it, the better way is to go there and do it yourself.

~ Mary-Jean Harris

I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a sober sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne. I don't find your life uninteresting, as Rodman does. I would like to hear it as it sounded while it was passing. Having no future of my own, why shouldn't I look forward to yours.

~ Wallace Stegner

Your past is your experiences and your teacher as well, and your future is your hope, your dream and your fate, while the present is your moment of learning from past and preparation for the future.

~ Jinnul Jr.

Tomorrow's fast becoming our Past.

~ Herbern Lebumfacil

All that time I'd spent worrying about why I'm here and how I'm supposed to live had kept me from remembering that Jeremy Pratt will never be back. His people will never have him again. He is Jeremy Pratt who died and stayed dead and will never get a second chance. And even though that hand that spent the last five years holding hers was somehow doing it again, it wasn't Jeremy Pratt's anyone

~ John Corey Whaley

A lady with a past has nothing to lose. But a woman with a future can't be too careful.

~ Jayne Ann Krentz

Dreams are things from the past. They aren't from the future. That wasn't you imprisoned there. You imprison your dreams. You understand?Yeah, I'd say. But I wasn't convinced.

~ Haruki Murakami

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

~ Jim George

As I faced each tragedy in my life, I learned to reach into the depth of my soul for strength and determination. Through this healing process, I discovered perseverance and resilience. I could not go into the past and use White-Out to erase any events; instead, I had to find a way to use my pain to help me heal and grow. I had to stare darkness in the face and accept that I could not change the past, but I could build a better future.

~ Erin Merryn

And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new

~ Billy Joel

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

~ Garrison Keillor

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

~ Tad Williams

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

~ Deborah Levy

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale.

~ Anthony Liccione

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

~ Sol Luckman