Past Quotes

"The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you" "You can never plan the future by the past" "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "And no matter how many lovers you kill you can't kill your first" "Revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past" "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "The promise given was a necessity of the past the word broken is a necessity of the present" "Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems" "Some things you forget. Other things you never do" "You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall" "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." "The past is always tense the future perfect" "For many, the weight of the past is not what was but rather what wasn’t." "To feel today what one felt yesterday isn’t to feel – it’s to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today’s living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost." "I am not jealous of what came before me" "Perhaps you will remember me like I remember you" "The memory of you emerges from the night around me" "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child" "Almost all our miseries flow from the want of consideration of the past, and of serenity in the present" "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past"