Past Quotes

"The work of memory collapses time" "The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost" "We are always pursued by our origins. " "My past is everything I failed to be." "Waste not fresh tears over old griefs" "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "I remember you as you were in the last autumn " "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done." "Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater" "Every image of the past that is not recognized by the present as one of its own concerns threatens to disappear irretrievably" "I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place" "Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. " "The town was paper but the memories were not" "We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire" "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes" "The one charm of the past is that it is the past" "Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed" "The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate." "Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the dangers, to find your future."