Top 70 Quotes About Remembering The Past
#1. I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.
Gennifer Albin
#2. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
Bill Crawford
#3. The only thing worse than remembering the past is the fear of reliving it.
Brad Meltzer
#4. Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.
Romesh Gunesekera
#5. I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.
Maya Lin
#6. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau
#7. To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#8. Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.
Janet Gurtler
#9. I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.
Eduardo Galeano
#10. Remembering the past is always gilded in golden nostalgia. Anticipating the future is always softened with hope. Dealing with the present is just straight up unpleasant.
Tim McGiven
#11. I stopped remembering the past and started visualising my future, the only thing left I could hold onto was hope; that the courage I have found along the way, is what will see me through.
Nikki Rowe
#12. One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.
S. N. Goenka
#13. I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Eduardo Galeano
#14. Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
Orhan Pamuk
#15. Remembering the past gives power to the present.
Fae Myenne Ng
#16. And we will take heart for the future, remembering the past.
T. S. Eloit
#17. Remembering the past is like watching a Hollywood movie, in that you never see the characters go to the toilet.
Steve Toltz
#18. that I thought of you - of the air that slipped
between the strands of your hair, and blue stones
in my hand, before the autumn damasks
bloom their last, before these blue stones are lain
forgotten as the blossoms of plum trees
I could not render in my artless hands
John Daniel Thieme
#19. The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.
Laura Lippman
#20. ...and then Danny was moving on him in the rhythm they'd found so easily in the past, their bodies remembering the way of it as if they'd never been apart, as if they'd only been waiting to find each other again.
Brooke McKinley
#21. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.
George R R Martin
#22. Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
Frederick Dodson
#23. Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Marianne Williamson
#24. We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
George Santayana
#25. Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...
John Geddes
#26. Sometimes we live too much in the past,
remembering what we wished had happened.
Harley King
#27. After several hours, he realized he had been so lost in remembering and mourning the past, he had wasted two miles heading in the wrong direction.
Rachel Joyce
#28. While forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.
Louise Penny
#29. She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.
Donna Lynn Hope
#30. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.
John Speed
#31. I popped out of a bamboo, fallen from the sky.
Leave no leaf ripped, don't you ruin the nature.
It makes me bitter, remembering inhuman past.
Toba Beta
#32. All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future.
Pope Francis
#33. Ever poised on that cusp between past and future, we tie memories to souvenirs like string to trees along life's path, marking the trail in case we lose ourselves around a bend of tomorrow's road.
Susan Lendroth
#34. I find I need less sleep as I grow older, and I am grown very old. I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday.
George R R Martin
#35. The past is only as alive as we keep it by remembering.
Lisa Maxwell
#36. What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.
Mark Twain
#37. After a bad day there's always hope in remembering that the day cannot possibly repeat itself, therefore all who still treat you badly because of it are thinking in the past. Tell them that, it will make you feel better.
Unknown Author 649
#38. Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.
Jenim Dibie
#39. The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
Rabih Alameddine
#41. Remember? Ohh, I wouldn't do that! Remembering's dangerous. I find the past such a worrying, anxious place.
"The past tense", I supposed you'd call it. Ha ha ha.
Alan Moore
#42. 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
#43. Throughout one's life, the mind remembers in such strange ways. Those experiences worth remembering will be recalled with ease; crystal clear insights into the past. Together with a smile they will be woven into yarns and shared with others.
Calum J. Lambie
#44. Do you have any idea how late it is? Go to sleep," she scolded as she hurried past him.
"I know, I'm going to bed right now ... Hey! YOU go to sleep," Jerry scolded back, belatedly remembering that he was the parent.
Josephine Angelini
#45. Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.
Janet Fitch
#46. We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#47. Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.
Susan Meissner
#48. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.
N'Zuri Za Austin
#49. Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.
Michael Paterniti
#50. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.
Frank Herbert
#51. Remembering God's work in the past has a sustaining and renewing effect during times of spiritual drought. Memory and worship are thus keys to a long life of spiritual formation. Try
Richard J. Foster
#52. My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.
Steve Maraboli
#53. He who cannot remember the past is condemned to remember the past. Or something.
Sarah Palin
#54. We survive the packages of pain God allows in our lives by remembering who God is and what He has done in the past.
Linda Dillow
#55. She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
Lois Lowry
#56. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.
Wiley Cash
#57. Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth.
Elizabeth George
#58. 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. Thinking remembering how his uncle had said that all man had was time, all that stood between him and the death he feared and abhorred was time yet he spent half of it inventing ways of getting the other half past:
William Faulkner
#61. Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall
Kelly Barnhill
#63. I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.
Mark Twain
#64. Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal - the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?
Roger Zelazny
#65. I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.
Melissa Jennings
#66. . . . This
is not the same river at my fingertips.
There are no paths, no sunken roads
familiar in the forest, by which we can
retrace our steps,
by which we can escape
by which we can reclaim and return,
or hear the child's song running in the timothy . . .
John Daniel Thieme
#67. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars
John Daniel Thieme
#68. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has yet to come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering
Ida Scott Taylor
#69. It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
Ger Duany
#70. The patient cannot remember the whole of what is repressed in him, and what he cannot remember may be precisely the essential part of it.. He is obliged to repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of remembering it as something in the past.
Sigmund Freud
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