4,591 Quotes About Past

The traditions can be really important. It's a way of bridging the past with the new year.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Because of the situation that we are in, everything we've done in the past several years will be called into question. We have to look at what we are trying to do here.

I want to be as healthy as I can be so I can make it past 50; make it past 60 and make it past 70.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

Failure in the past does not nullify purpose in the future.

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been, heard vague incantations, felt the heat of raging fires on my face. And they didn't come out of him, these visions. Rather I drew them out on my own. Yet I never had Nicolas, mortal or immortal, been so alluring. Never had Gabrielle held me so in thrall. Dear God, this is love. This is desire. And all my past amours have been but the shadow of this." — Lestat de Lioncourt

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.