353 Quotes About The-past

I do not need to recall the past,” I say. “I am certain of what it was.

Little is the imagination of the person who believes that the future of another may be determined by his/her past. We are so much more than our minds and our memories! We are in fact transcendent souls. If you determine what is ahead by what you can see when you look back, then you will in fact never behold what actually stands in front of you.

He didn't mean it. It happened before he was through. She'd stepped away from him to pick flowers, returned, and at the sound of her footsteps behind him, he'd turned around before he was through. It was becoming a habit––this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had.

It was possible to rush forward, looking back, and break your neck.

The past is what nourishes and sustains us. It is like going to work on a good breakfast.

The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can't get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

Can’t repeat the past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why ofcourse you can!’‘I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before,’ hesaid, nodding determinedly. ‘She’ll see.

Unless we do something about the past, she thought, then it will weigh us down to such an extent that we simply cannot move. Is that what I want?

The reunion, she decided, was an unnecessary and stressful complication to life. We did not need to reheat cold dishes from the past.