In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.
Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...
I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.
Ben Says: Your greatness is in your successful future ahead of you. Not in the failures in the past you left behind. Timothy Pina Bullying Ben
One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.
When your past shows up to haunt you, make sure it comes after supper so it doesn't ruin your whole day.
Her past is colliding with my present, future. Some of us wants to sleep under the blanket of lies rather than getting naked with truth.
If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.
The past has been there all along, reminding us: This time--maybe, hopefully, against all odds, we will get it right.
Those who will have studied the past that can define the future will succeed as other who don't will have misled full of lies.
During the past 23 years, I have set a number of goals for myself and I'm proud to say that these goals have been achieved.
Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Golf is played between the ears and if you are not 100 percent focused on what you are trying to do, then people will go past you no matter who you are.
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Lastly, literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
Will my future faith be dominated by past demons? Will my unlimited possibilities give way to my limited territory?
The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.