353 Quotes About The-past

She used to wander through the past as often as it beckoned her, bemoaning the loss of nostalgia. Then, for a while, she turned from it, blissfully free of its noxious clutch, and now it's back, taunting her with what she left behind, knowing she can never recapture what's gone.

After all, the past was no less ridiculous than the present. Both eras were made up of humans.

I always thought it was pathetic that Reva had chosen to stay in the area after graduation, but passing through it in the cab, in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.

I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me.

Unngh,' the Minotaur says.What he means is that every past is littered and scarred. What he means is that the present moment is the only moment that pulses, that breathes. What he means is that he himself is capable of great tenderness but has also done great harm. The Minotaur knows that sometimes mercy requires expedience. Haste. Sometimes it can't be about how much a thing hurts.

Because of the past, so many people are living in the past! No one is free from the past, but we are free to choose to move from the past into the present or stay in the past, though we live in the present!

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better

When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past.

Leia would never hold someone's past against them. She had enough demons in her family tree to guarantee she was not one to judge.