Past Quotes

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards" "History is the memory of states" "Old age is just a record of one’s whole life." "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "It's useless to look back at the past, expecting the old to be the same as the new" "I regret the past, but at the same time, it made me who I am today." "Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure" "Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart." "In this bright future, you can't forget your past." "Don't think about the past. Just be here now." "Study the past, if you would divine the future." "Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future." "The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities." "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." "The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale." "Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now."