Quotes of: Past-events Keyword

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Anna Karenina

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

I had this daft idea to come and bury the past. Except the past is not quite dead.

Not Quite a Husband

People tend to look on the beliefs of the past as being primitive and unintelligent, yet we are seeing more truth in the past every day.

Obsidian

Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.

Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

Lud-in-the-Mist

The past is past. You tried to kill yourself. So what? I humped a couch in season twelve. We all have our skeletons.

Something Real

The world, full of past sound, would be like the sky, full of past light. The world would be like the mind, for which there is no once.

Things That Are

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

The Poppet and the Lune

It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new

The Promise of Stardust

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

The Poetics of Space

The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.

Unexpected Blessings

My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

Whistling Past the Graveyard

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

Whistling Past the Graveyard

My gut feeling says he needs a second chance. Like we all do." WINTER'S PAST

Winter's Past

In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.

White Teeth

I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past.

Xazaqazax

I'm not an historian but I can get interested - obsessively interested - with any aspect of the past, whether it's palaeontology or archaeology or the very recent past.

Penelope Lively

Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut!

Raheel Farooq