353 Quotes About The-past

That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past.Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.

Staying in the past does not help, my friend. Everything passes you by while you’re trying to relive that one little slice of golden apple that you had.

He'd viewed the past like Uncle Joseph's grave, an empty hole without life, waiting to be filled in by him. It never occurred to him that Paradis, the Marais Foncé, or the ridge, existed before he had the eyes to see them, or that older people had once been young. Now his eyes were opened and he wanted to understand the past."Jean Baptiste, The Last Lord of Paradise––Generation Two

The events of the past cannot be fully understood when you are the only element of the past actively engaged in reliving it.

He was the same as everyone else: he carried his past inside him. There was no escape from it. No matter how hard you push it down, the truth always comes to the surface.

Well, he's history. You're free to meet the man of your dreams now.

History can only hurt us if we let it.

Sometimes the past can vanish.

There are a lot of them, all around the wsorld, all built a lifetime ago, during the long and spectacular blaze of American military power and self-confidence, when there was nothing we couldn't or wouldn't do. I was a product of that era, but not a part of it. I was nostalgic for something I had never experienced.