Past Quotes

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title." "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past" "The lessons of the past have shown us that military adventures can lead to human tragedies on a vast scale." "Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now." "Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different." "The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past" "You can call it nostalgia, I don’t mind. I think I’ll always be chasing memories of some better place, some better time." "When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back" "The past, present and future are only illusions, even if stubborn ones." "You will get the best prediction of the future from the realization that the predictive power of the past has never been good at making future predictions" "We don't lose the past; it lives in us" "We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." "You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret …is to press play." "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist."