Top 100 Past Is Quotes
#1. The Sweeping Aside Motion This means, the past is in the past. Helping your teen win the war isn't about questioning what you could have done yesterday. It is about establishing a battle plan for what you are going to do today, tomorrow, and beyond.
Jeffrey Dean
#2. I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
Lee Krasner
#3. The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
Bruce Springsteen
#4. The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
Lisa Unger
#5. The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.
Ruskin Bond
#6. The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens.
Boyle Roche
#7. The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?
Cary Fowler
#8. Well
" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember," she said, "is that you were always such a dear little girl.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#9. The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends ...
Max Beerbohm
#10. To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can't be done subtly or delicately.
Robert Silverberg
#11. How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
Douglas Adams
#12. The past is a jealous warrior. It pokes and prods for undivided attention when it is the present which needs the most nourishment.
Alexia Purdy
#13. The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.
Steven Tyler
#14. The past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.
Jeanette Winterson
#15. That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.
Horace
#16. Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
Fennel Hudson
#17. There's this other world where all comedians want to do is make funny videos. Typically what's happened in the past is that a comedian gets a standup career and over the course of 20 years builds it up to the point where Comedy Central gives them a sketch show.
Gavin McInnes
#18. It matters, because everything we say
Of the past is description without place, a cast
Of the imagination, made in sound;
And because what we say of the future must portend,
Be alive with its own seemings, seeming to be
Like rubies reddened by rubies reddening.
Wallace Stevens
#19. Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.
Marcel Proust
#20. All you can do to the past is to never want to be like it.
Richey Edwards
#21. Yes, the past is another country, but once that we can visit and once there we can bring back the things we need.
Jeanette Winterson
#22. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Ann Marlowe
#23. The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and, try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our own day.
Margaret Atwood
#24. Everything else falls away except for the family you're born into, choose, or make; the circle of love you'll die to protect and keep near you. The only thing that keeps us rooted in the past is our refusal to embrace the present.
Karen Marie Moning
#25. If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
Walter Kirn
#26. The only way to bury the past is to build tomorrow on top of it.
Craig Lancaster
#28. The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen
#29. Life is happening at this very moment; it is not behind us or before us. The past is full of memories and future is full of expectations.
Debasish Mridha
#30. the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it
Jennifer Alex Oliveira
#31. The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.
Claudia Rankine
#32. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
Clarence Darrow
#34. The past is over, so it has no power now. The thoughts of this moment create my future.
Louise Hay
#35. Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.
Byron Katie
#37. The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in," said Shams as if he had read my thoughts. "Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
Elif Shafak
#38. The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.
Margaret Atwood
#39. The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'
Neale Donald Walsch
#40. I think what we've experienced in the past is that people do like to be challenged.
Marion Cotillard
#41. Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
A.J. Liebling
#42. It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.
Vasily Grossman
#43. The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.
Elizabeth Kostova
#44. All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#45. You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.
Ilsa J. Bick
#46. It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
H.G.Wells
#47. What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.
Ron Kaufman
#49. When you depend on the computer to remember your past, you focused on whatever past is kept on the computer.
Sherry Turkle
#50. Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?
Jase Robertson
#52. How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.
Jackie Kay
#53. How beautiful the yesterday that stood
Over me like a rainbow! I am alone,
The past is past. I see the future stretch
All dark and barren as a rainy sea.
Alexander Smith
#54. The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.
Erik Naggum
#55. Future is an empty paper, but not absolutely empty; the shadows of the drawings of the past is there, on the paper!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. What am I writing for anyway? Is it like dreaming? Is it a benevolent process? Something that moves the past forward? And what about those people who say all you get from looking at the past is a stiff neck?
Selima Hill
#57. The past is useful only insofar as it justifies the present; the present is not of value in itself or autonomous, but subject to the image of the past.
Eli Lederhendler
#58. The past is always beautiful. So, for that matter, is the future. Only the present hurts, and we carry it around like an abscess of suffering, our compassion between two infinities of happiness and peace.
Michel Houellebecq
#59. The past is past and I guess if you live in the past, you cease to live.
Craig McCaw
#60. It may be a small piece at a time, but my past is yours now. All of it. Anything you want to know, I want to tell you. But only if you promise me I can also have your future.
Colleen Hoover
#61. As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
Joseph Brodsky
#62. Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson
#64. To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
Gautama Buddha
#65. That's why everyone focuses on the present and future. The past is too painful when you remember how lives end. Often abruptly.
Jodi Meadows
#66. Facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.
Lev Grossman
#67. Your past is just that, the past, a place within your psyche with no more reality to it then the picture of a castle on a postcard is made from stone.
Guy Finley
#68. We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
Bergen Evans
#69. My past is too dark. You should find a nice girl and leave me alone. Now, get over here and take your pants off. -Pandora Black, billionaire dominatrix
Dom N. Atrix
#70. The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt.
Nonna Bannister
#71. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.
Joseph Epstein
#72. My future is what I make it, and my past is what made me!!!
Peace Gypsy
#73. The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.
Orson Scott Card
#75. The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture.
James Rollins
#76. No matter how bad your past is, you still don't want it erased.
Paul Aertker
#77. Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives ... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.
Bill Crawford
#79. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
Dan Simmons
#80. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
Bernie Siegel
#81. to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten?
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.
Jonathan Miller
#83. The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.
Mason Jennings
#84. In a way," I said to him, "that now you're talking about hardly exists. We feel it, but it's impossible to measure. The past is always eating up the present.
Siri Hustvedt
#85. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real
the here-and-now. Seize the day.
Saul Bellow
#86. The past is a ghost, the future is a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
#87. But the past is in the past and that's where it'll stay, and in the past are the sins that were cast as far as the East is from the West, and there they will stay.
K. Weikel
#89. Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.
Steve Toltz
#90. The sense of one's past is so strong and forms our sense of self so strongly, it will always fascinate, elude and confuse me.
Samantha Harvey
#91. The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
Bruce Sterling
#92. 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
#93. The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on ...
Lawrence Krauser
#95. When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
Mandy Hale
#96. The wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.
Zadie Smith
#97. Names don't mean a thing anymore. The past is dead.
Lauren Oliver
#98. The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
James Thurber
#99. The past is done. It's really about who we are now.
Curtis Bunn
#100. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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