579 quotes found
“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”
“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”
“What's done, is done”
“I often laughed, and you often gave me a dissatisfied look, till you pressed me to unfold my past before you as if it were a roll of pictures. It was then I felt respect for you. Because you unrese...”
“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storyt...”
“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”
“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one's self back in that kind of mood, but I do see it; I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we ...”
“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am rea...”
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
“You know that old phrase Those who dont remember the past are condemned to repeat it? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.”
“If you dont deal with the past, the past deals with you.”
“All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.”
“A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.”
“Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.”
“The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.”
“It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.”
“The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks have told us, it is a living past, living for a reason. The past is a part ...”
“There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.”
