Past Quotes - Page 10

In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.

Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.

Tomorrow can take me,” he said. “I don’t need today anyway.

Time laughs in the distance as I cling to the belief memories of you will fade.

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.

And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new

Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.

One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

The future is now! Don't make that second pass you into regrets.

dont dwell on the past when the future smiles bright and the present is by your side

I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that's different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that's slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.

it is always yesterday, tomorrow, and 3 years ago today. It is always your birthday. It is always the future, the present, and the past. It is always eternity that will last.

The past and the future were starlight, seemingly so close, but forever out of reach.
Eli felt that starlight, the infinity of knowing nothing but his finite existence.

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.