I don't live in the past.
People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.
I wish I did not know parts of the past; I wish they had never happened. But the past is the past, and someone must remember, and speak of it.
Any blunder committed in the past opens the avenue for the success of the future. However, the success of the future massively is fueled by the how positively the mistakes of the past are handled!
The past is a hotel. You can visit any time; enjoy the view. But you can't live there. The cost is to high.
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a...
My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone,...
You must confront your past. At some time or other you must confront your past. It doesn't flash before your eyes, I knew that, but it's always there. We are our past. There is nothing else, and none of it can be undone.
One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
The past doesn't exist. There is nothing to be sorry for. Today is when we start to live. Look... look at the sea. The sea has no past. It is just there. It will never ask us to explain. The stars, the moon are there to light our way, to shine for us...
Sweet is the memory of past labor.
When the danger is past God is cheated.
A book can’t be a half-fantasy any more than a woman can be half pregnant
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
Half the headaches in a man’s life involve a women and half the heartaches in a women life are because of a men.
I’m half chameleon, half camouflage, and wholly in love with you, though you’d never be able to see it.
My heart is half Puerto Rican, half Canadian. That is how I feel.
