The Past Quotes

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

You can never plan the future by the past.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.