Top Past Quotes

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.

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.

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here an...

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchain...

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment...

I am haunted by my past and by what I must do to ensure my future.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the futu...

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing toda...

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all...

There are some things in the past that… that just aren’t meant to be viewed.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

Nothing is but what is now

Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.