353 Quotes About The-past

There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed.

The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.

The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The year or so I’d spent in love with Chad was starting to feel so long ago, swept away by the wind. I knew that this year would soon feel far away too.

Tradition-that's what they call the chains that bind one to a fatuous past.

WE COMMENTED TO Corrie about the practicalness of the things she recalled, how her memories seemed to throw a spotlight on problems and decisions we faced here and now. "But," she said, "this is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down.

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

There are moments when the past has a force so strong it seems one might be annihilated by it.