Top Past Quotes

To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

Past Definition

(v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.

(n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.

(prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.

(prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.

(prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.

(adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as p...

Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading.

Past Present And Future Exist All At Once As Parallel Moments In Time.

You are done with the past, but the past isn't done with you.

Sometimes, we can't see our progress. We live our lives every day and can't see how much has changed. I think we all need a piece of reality every once in a while, some item to show us how far we have...

Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, like the telescoping legs of a tripod, a series of tapering structures. Since it's quite far from on...

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

Paco Fuentes, Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary.The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat.Mrs. Pet...

To transcend limitations and form positive new patterns of life based on who you know you can be rather than who you were yesterday, you must give up the modes of thinking, feeling and behaving that o...

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

Don't let the blights from the past hold you back from the bliss of the future

I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done...

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.