Quotes on past
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Woolf, Virginia
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Hartley, Lesley P.
Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Eldridge, Paul
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Wilde, Oscar
It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops.
George Eliot
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Wilde, Oscar
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Berry, Wendell
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
McLaughlin, Mignon
God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Elder, Pliny the
The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.
Melville, Herman
What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
Unknown, Author
The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
Maurois, André
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Meir, Golda
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
Cage, John