4,591 Quotes About Past

It's a rare business that doesn't have a way worse future than it has a past.

Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

The jagged mountains were pure blue in the dawn and everywhere birds twittered and the sun when it rose caught the moon in the west so that they lay opposed to each other across the earth, the sun whitehot and the moon a pale replica, as if they were the ends of a common bore beyond whose terminals burned worlds past all reckoning.

All whispers and echoes from a past that is gone teem into the sleeper's brain, and he is with them, and part of them.

No runner will be at a disadvantage over past participants and most will reap significant benefits.

The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: Gone With the Wind and Titanic.

You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.