Top 100 Live In The Past Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Live In The Past

#1. We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

#2. It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Wendell Berry

#3. Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

#4. You live in the past,' Kate said. 'You live in your grandfather's time.' But she was wrong. The past was not something we could live in, because it had nothing to do with life. It was something we lugged about, as heavy as a sack of rotting apples.

Helen Dunmore

#5. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.

Matthew A. DeBettencourt

#6. Genealogists live in the past lane.

Jimi Hendrix

#7. This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past.

Scott Turow

#8. Old movies are black-and-white; they've got good guys and bad guys. The thing was, I didn't want to live in the past anymore. It was time for my life to go full color.

Eileen Cook

#9. starting at a certain point, the future is only a need to live in the past. To immediately redo the grammatical tenses.

Elena Ferrante

#10. I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past
I want to live now!

Mia Hamm

#11. That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.
Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.

David Baldacci

#12. There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past, that you can survive without a brain but not for long period...What Is Consciousness? And many other stuff... (so the question which has left, do you have the time to do it?)

Deyth Banger

#13. Forget all your sorrow, don't live in the past, and look to the future because life goes too fast, you know - it's a hard road.

Geezer Butler

#14. Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

Franz Grillparzer

#15. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

Judy Grahn

#16. We can never live in the past; so everyday we begin anew.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I was thinking about hitting races and stuff, but it's just, I think it's more of the era of when I was a kid and it just brings back memories. I gotta just chill and live in the past.

Matt Skiba

#18. I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

Patricia Norris

#19. We do not live in the past, but the past in us.

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

#20. I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!

Charles Dickens

#21. When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

John Phillips Marquand

#22. I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me

Jamie Ford

#23. You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Anne Rice

#24. What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it.

Alice Munro

#25. Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Bob Newhart

#26. True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.

Deepak Chopra

#27. Moneo has discovered it is pointless to live in the past, impossible to live in the future, and difficult to live in the present.

Frank Herbert

#28. I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.

Joe Montana

#29. If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

Oprah Winfrey

#30. It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert

#31. You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work at all.

Elvis Costello

#32. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks.

Lauren Bacall

#33. Don't live in the past - you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

Douglas Preston

#34. 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.

Jim Bishop

#35. Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#36. You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

John Benjamin Hickey

#37. They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.

George Harrison

#38. Everything happens for a reason. Failure is not an excuse to live in the past, to stay stuck in one place. Everyone has a chance to turn regret into a lesson. Turn lessons into growth. And be successful.

Nia Arthurs

#39. They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Dr. Seuss

#40. I try not to live in the past, he thought, but who knows, sometimes the past lives in me.

Jamie Ford

#41. Learn from the past, but don't live in the past.

Steve Maraboli

#42. To live in the past is to die in the present.

Bill Belichick

#43. Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts. *

Amanda Stevens

#44. I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Charles Dickens

#45. It's good to live in the past. It's sexier here

Tiffany Reisz

#46. You don't live in the past; you take a sledgehammer to it to see what stands so that you can build on it.

Samuel L. Drew

#47. 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

#48. The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.

Frank Herbert

#49. Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!

Beem Weeks

#50. I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

#51. You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#52. You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future.

Debasish Mridha

#53. I don't live in the past.

Joe Montana

#54. I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Harold Pinter

#55. Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.

Richard Rohr

#56. To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

R.D. Laing

#57. I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

Herb Caen

#58. One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.

George Fernandes

#59. I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.

Mike Royer

#60. A great number of people wake up each morning with the thought of not just how to pay back, but how to consciously or unconsciously live in the past!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#61. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

Augusten Burroughs

#62. Yes. She rebelled, I suppose, against being made to live in the past. After all, there's a time for everything. You can't sit in the house with the blinds down forever.

Agatha Christie

#63. My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

Munia Khan

#64. We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.

Samuel Pisar

#65. The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Mackenzie Phillips

#66. People tell me I live in the past. We all live in the past, I tell them, we just don't know it yet." ("Love Stories Are Too Violent For Me," Wild Card Press, 1995)

Will Viharo

#67. The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories - love lives in the present.

Bryant McGill

#68. The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

#69. No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important.

Marie Kondo

#70. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Frank Herbert

#71. The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.

Craig McCaw

#72. Instead of taking the camp's difficulties as a test of their inner strength, they did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless.

Viktor E. Frankl

#73. I don't live in the past or focus on making new songs sound like my old stuff; it would be stupid, and I don't think anyone would like it.

Juicy J

#74. Never live in the past; were it good to do so, butterflies would crawl back into their cocoons.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#75. Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

Evelyn Nesbit

#76. To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings.

Quentin Crisp

#77. The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.

Israelmore Ayivor

#78. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.

Mark Twain

#79. Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Lord Acton

#80. Don't live in the past, and don't carry the past around like a burden. But simply use your past as one of your mentors to help refine mistakes and make changes you can invest now and the future.

Jim Rohn

#81. Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#82. I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk around all day dressed in a crinoline, I would.

Kate Williams

#83. You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Martina Navratilova

#84. People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

#85. Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been. I don't want to live in the past anymore. I'm so lonely here, there's nothing for me here anymore.

Stephanie Smith

#86. I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

Mike Ditka

#87. I don't compare shows. It's very simple. I don't live in the past. If there's any secret to my longevity, it's living in the future. And a little bit in the present.

Harold Prince

#88. Those who live in the past are cowards and losers.

Mike Ditka

#89. I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in order to promote their new work, they have to constantly lean on their past. I don't want to be that type of artist ... I see a lot of people out here doing really marginal music.

Billy Corgan

#90. A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

Briana Scurry

#91. They did not take their life seriously and despised it as something of no consequence. They preferred to close their eyes and to live in the past. Life for such people became meaningless. Naturally

Viktor E. Frankl

#92. When you have no future, you live in the past.

John Grisham

#93. Remember, the things with which we choose to surround ourselves tell our story. Let's hope it's not "I choose to live in the past," or "I can't finish the projects I start." Instead, let's aim for something like, "I live lightly and gracefully, with only the objects I find functional or beautiful.

Francine Jay

#94. But don't forget that memory is like salt: the right amount brings out the flavour in food, too much ruins it. If you live in the past all the time, you'll find yourself with no present to remember.

Paulo Coelho

#95. Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Bettany Hughes