Shared Past Quotes

#1. We stared at one another, two strangers bound eternally by a shared past of lies and broken promises.

Julie Johnson

#2. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be ...

Eckhart Tolle

#3. We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.

Sarah Dessen

#4. Set between England and the Spanish Canary Islands, three women learn the truth about their shared past, and discover the importance of family. Spain, 1939. Following the wishes of her parents to keep her safe during the war, a young girl, Julia, enters a convent in Barcelona.

Rosanna Ley

#5. Maybe relationships were a force of forward motion, creating something new out of the present and future, until eventually that became shared past.

Anonymous

#6. Since nature allows us to enter into a partnership with every age, why not turn from this brief and transient spell of time and give ourselves wholeheartedly to the past, which is limitless and eternal and can be shared with better men than we?

Seneca.

#7. 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

#8. That might be the problem. A lot of the good stuff is from the past. The Jonas Brothers, High School Musical, our shared grief. Our friendship is based on memories. What do we have now?

Angie Thomas

#9. What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded
God knows how
in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.

J.M. Coetzee

#10. I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)

Chimnese Davids

#11. I couldn't wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she's actually the key to my future.

Emily Procter

#12. Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

John Slattery

#13. It was strange to find them here, still alive, with their shared bits of past that suddenly counted for nothing.

Paolo Giordano

#14. 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

#15. The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Alan Lightman

#16. For there were times I caught them staring at me curiously. I never told them about my past or shared personal information. They knew nothing of Savannah or my dad or my friendship with Tony. Those memories were mine and mine alone, for I'd learned that some things are best kept secret. In

Nicholas Sparks

#17. One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.

Lynn Austin

#18. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

Alan Lightman

#19. The past and the future are not a collection of instants shared by all space, but a collection of events that correspond to a possible relation of causal order with the present event.

Felix Alba-Juez

#20. In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

Kent Nerburn

#21. Every tomorrow is better because you opened your eyes, but still, memories from your past are meant to be shared and cherished

Peace Gypsy

#22. 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

#23. The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.

Glenda Jackson

#24. The bodybuilding world has lost one of its greatest legends. I had a chance to speak with Steve Michalik a year ago at The Upper State Bodybuilding competition. We laughed and shared our personal opinions about bodybuilding [today's scene and how it was in the past]. Steve, we'll miss you. R.I.P.

Lee Haney

#25. Most friendships, if the end at all, end not by earthquake, but by erosion. Your time together, which you used to take for granted, becomes something you need to schedule.
Slowly you're aware that the easy intimacy you shared got lost somewhere. You talk more and more about the past.

Alex Robinson

#26. Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

Jean Webster

#28. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?

Jeanette Winterson

#29. It is knowledge that binds us; shared wisdom from ages past and new wisdom that we should all seek to embrace. Wisdom is our legacy; our refuge from the world of the ignorant and foolish. We chose this path that we might walk open-eyed into the future... undaunted by fear and lies.

Ted Naifeh

#30. I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

Christiane Amanpour

#31. In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment.

Albert Camus