353 Quotes About The-past

With history, with memory, with retellings, people often settled for the obvious answer.

Let no one say the past is dead. The past is all about us and within.

Sometimes it is as if Andreas Ban sees Lethe rise from its bed and splash the porous ramparts of memory. Flooding fields, cities and people. And when it decides to withdraw, it drags after it carpets of the past and the shaky present and buries them in its dense silt. And he hears Hypnos and Thanatos shading the world with the fluttering of their wings. Then he ought perhaps to reach for poets.

The whole past is between them.

We must realize the truth around our past and within it and how not being willing to question the status quo has led to horrific deeds to victims in the past.

History is yesterday's news. Nothing is deader than yesterday's news.

The past was with my countrymen every moment of their lives. History for then was that fabled second chance. They could rework the past and get it right this time around.

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper.

It is only under the plane trees of Granada that la cachucha is danced by eternally young gypsies. Eternally young, like the roses are, because every spring there are new ones.