Past Quotes - Page 19

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

The Looking Glass- Wish it bares abides in us.
It lies' just yesterday my skin glowed in it'
Today it pales like it never bloomed.

It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.

One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.

I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car in drive and hit the gas. I felt as if I'd jumped off a sinking ship and was in a life raft with my little girl, my face turned away from the horror, rowing, rowing, as fast and as hard as I could in the opposite direction.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something the rest of us strive for.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

I don't fuck much with the past but I fuck plenty with the future.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

People don't realize that the future is just now, but later.

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past.

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time-for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.