124 Quotes About Past-and-future

Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious future.

The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death?...But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated...'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan,'controls the future:who controls the present controls the past.'...All that was needed was a series of victories over your own memory.

Dwelling on the past and worrying about the future will only rob you of the present's joy.

Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

If you had the ability to time-travel to the future to see what you would become, would you still be doubtful?

Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?

When you get to a point in a situation when you say I'm too old for this or I'm too young for this, it is definitely time to make a change.

Your past must die for your future to live.