4,591 Quotes About Past

The ethereal past had blinded him, and the highest happiness he could dream was a return to it.

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Imagination is my time machine.

Be at peace with where you've been and where you are. That's how you win the battlefield of the mind.

The future is now our past, but the past doesn’t have to be our future.

Past generations made mistakes when they thought they were in the right. It makes me wonder what this generation is doing wrong.

We cannot look at the past or the future except by means of the imagination but again the imagination of backward glances is one thing and the imagination of looks ahead something else. Even the psychologists concede this present particular, for, with them, memory involves a reproductive power, and looks ahead involve a creative power: the power of our expectations.

Life plays Tetris with elements,and creates our reality.

Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.