Sayings about The Past
Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity. ~ Arabian Proverb
You can be cautious about the future but not the past. ~ Chinese Proverb
Words of snow, which fell last year. ~ German Proverbs
A book is a good friend when it lays bare the errors of the past. ~ Indian Proverbs
Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind. ~ Russian Proverb
Living in the past has one thing going for it; it’s cheaper! ~ Traditional Proverb
Patience, money and time bring all things to past. ~ Traditional Proverb
No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady. ~ Latin Proverb
The past is for God, the future for the Tsars. ~ Russian Proverbs
All the past died yesterday; the future is born today. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about the Past
Look to the past for guidance into the future. ~ Robert Jacob Goodkin
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. ~ Edward Thomas
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. ~ Oscar Wilde Quotes
The past is not a package one can lay away. ~ Emily Dickinson Quotes
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. ~ Oscar Wilde
The past beats inside me like a second heart. ~ John Banville
What is past is prologue. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
The past is the best way to suppose what may come. ~ Lord Halifax
Our most merciless enemy is our past. ~ Maxim Gorky
The past is over… forget it. The future holds hope… reach for it. ~ Charles Swindoll
We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. ~ Glen Duncan
Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. ~ Barack Obama Quotes
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~ Lesley P. Hartley
Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning. ~ T. S. Eliot
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How the past perishes is how the future becomes. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
All the past is not worth one today. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The past is a funeral gone by. ~ Sir Edmund Gosse
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. ~ Simone Weil
Pain is no longer pain when it is past. ~ Margaret J. Preston
A good knowledge of things past is an armour against events to come. ~ Edward Counsel
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come. ~ Johann Caspar Lavater
You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you. ~ Rick Remender
May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future. ~ Paul Dickson
The past is at least secure. ~ Daniel Webster
The past is a towering mansion. ~ Edward Counsel
No matter what a man’s past may have been, his future is spotless. ~ John R. Rice
All tradition is merely the past. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. ~ Adrienne Rich
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you. ~ Frank Herbert
We all live on the past, and through the past are destroyed. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
The past is a closed door. ~ Margaret Atwood
I think we all agree, the past is over. ~ George W. Bush
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. ~ Oscar Wilde
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~ André Maurois
The past is a mist. ~ Harold Pinter
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. ~ Kenneth Auchincloss
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past. ~ Sigmund Freud
The past is never dead — it is not even past. ~ William Faulkner
My soul is not a palace of the past… ~ James Russell Lowell
The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here. ~ Finley Peter Dunne
The past is never where you think you left it. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. ~ Thomas Holcroft
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. ~ John La Farge
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Whatever with the past is gone, the best is always yet to come. ~ Lucy Larcom
Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. ~ Doménico Cieri Estrada
Continuity with the past is a necessity, not a duty. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. ~ Herb Caen
You can’t change the past, it just is. ~ Alyson Noël
Study the past, if you would divine the future. ~ Confucius Quotes
Learn from the past–don’t wear it like a yoke around your neck. ~ Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice. ~ Marcus Valerius Martial
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. ~ Cyril Connolly
The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers. ~ William Winter
We need not destroy the past. It is gone. ~ John Cage
The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too. ~ Eugene O’Nei
It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. ~ William Gibson
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Don’t brood on the past, but don’t forget it either. ~ Thomas H. Raddal
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future. ~ Ronald Reagan Quotes
The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past. ~ Author Unknown
The past does not equal the future. ~ Anthony Robbins
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow’s veil; the future, the virgin’s. ~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
I passionately scrutinize this past, in order to reconstruct from its scattered bits the illusion of a future. ~ Octave Mirbeau
The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~ Oscar Wilde
The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been. ~ Gordon Wright
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. ~ Maxim Gorky
The past beats inside me like a second heart. ~ John Banville
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened. ~ Gerald W. Johnson
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. ~ Eckhart Tolle
Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward. ~ Kiyoko Takeda
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again. ~ Walter Benjamin
The light of other days is faded, and all their glories past. ~ Alfred Bunn
There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the best as the past withdraws. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You read the past in some old faces. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you — if you don’t repeat it. ~ Pearl Bailey
We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us. Ideas of the Stone Age exist side by side with the latest scientific thought. Only a fraction of mankind has emerged from the Dark Ages… ~ Bergen Evans
The past is dead, and has no resurrection. ~ Henry Kirke White
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. ~ John Quincy Adams
The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know . ~ Rebecca Beard
If the past is not to bind us … we should have no law but the inclination of the moment. ~ George Eliot
History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe