4,591 Quotes About Past

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

My past behaviour makes me cringe.

With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?