4,591 Quotes About Past

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.

It's pretty bad. Now we know how some of the past teams felt.

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

The mind can only imagine anything, or remember what is past, while the body endures.

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.