The past is no further away than the last breath you took.
The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
I just don't see why the past has to matter.
I love having first-time experiences. When you're past the age of 20 or so, there are less and less first-time experiences.
I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.
If you can predict the future, you can change the past.
You cannot win the future if you don't forgive your past
The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.
Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.
Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.
We are not slaves of the past, nor servants of the present, but masters of the future.
The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde.
This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
That time when past begins to look longer than the future
Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.
It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
