#Past Quotes

“My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.”

“The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.”

“Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see howmany of my old acquaintance are dead!”

“I was adored once too.”

“Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,Not what is dangerous present, but the losOf what is past.”

“Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.”

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.”

“Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.”

“It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.”

“We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.”

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”

“What seest thou elseIn the dark backward and abysm of time?”

“It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past”

“There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere.”

“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”

“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”

“Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!”

“If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.”

“We have seen better days.”

“Do not look back,No one knows how the world ever began.Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.If you dwell on the past or future,You will miss the moment.”

“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

“History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.”

“Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.”

“I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”

“We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.”

“We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.”

“If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.”

“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”

“In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”

“How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.”

“The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.”

“You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.”

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

“Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.”

“Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.”

“If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.”

“Live today. Let go of your attachment to your past as an excuse for your life conditions today. You are the product of the choices you are making right now.”

“Don't judge me by my past. I don't live there anymore”

“Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.”

“The good old horse-and-buggy days: then you lived until you died and not until you were run over.”

“The pages of your past cannot be rewritten, but the pages of your tomorrows are blank.”

“You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future”

“We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!”

“And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.”

“Yesterday does not equal tomorrow. Forget the past and move towards your goals.”

“Let the new faces play what tricks they willIn the old rooms; night can outbalance day,Our shadows rove the garden gravel still,The living seem more shadowy than they.”

“Remembrance of things past.”

“The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.”