Past Quotes
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Science has, after all, made some colossal blunders in the past... Our current materialism and its rejection of the idea of a spirit or soul might be just another great falsity.
Susan Blackmore
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As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.
Judith Wright
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Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.
Sarah Kay
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For me, reworking the past over and over again is a way not to trivialise the garments and not to obsess over hem lengths. What I am interested in, as a matter of fact, is telling a story and, if someone sees fragments of other stories in it, be my guest. I don't have to justify myself. What is urgent for me is what I want to say.
Alessandro Michele
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How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past.
Norman Bridwell
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Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.
Pete Wilson
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What happens in our future can change the meaning of what has happened in our past.
John Twelve Hawks
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Maybe it's changing. But in the past, you would never be able to catch her.
Cristie Kerr
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How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.
William Gaddis
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I write with my past, about the future, for the present.
Eyedea
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The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
Egerton Brydges
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I have two goals. First, that readers be interested, drawn by a historical account, amused by its comic aspects, saddened by the tragic elements, captured by the possibilities of the past; and second, that readers be aware that there could be another way of looking at things besides the one I offer. I’m not giving a lesson or a sermon, I’m offering a dialogue, as I said before.
Natalie Zemon Davis
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Careful the spell you cast, not just on children. Sometimes the spell may last Past what you can see And turn against you... Careful the tale you tell. That is the spell.
Stephen Sondheim
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Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson
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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.
Terry Eagleton
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Oh, there at last, life's trials past, We'll meet our loved ones more, Whose feet have trod the path to God, - Not lost, but gone before.
Caroline Norton
