T Quotes
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“The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.”
Source: Behind the scenes at the museum
“The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”
Source: The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell
“The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.”
“The past is a finite resource.”
“The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can't neither guess the future, neither change the past.”
“The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there–but why is the past so different from the future?”
Source: The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
“The past is a funeral gone by.”
“The past is a garden of wilted onions; we weep not because we’re sad, but because we finally remembered to water them.”
“The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.”
“The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must be banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.”
Source: Lords of the Sith
“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.”
Source: Time Flies
“The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.”
“The past is a kind of future that has already happened.”
“the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it”
Source: Alex's Spilled Ink
“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”
Source: Citizen: An American Lyric
“The past is a mental, intellectual construct meant to give context to your present perceptions. There has never been a moment in your entire life in which the past has been anything else; I challenge you to find one.”
Source: More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief
“The past is a mentor, not a captor.”
“The past is a novel, written by Fate, weaving the same themes: love and its glory, hate and its prisoners, the soul and its price. Our decisions become narratives: fated choices that unknowably change the course of the living river. In the present, where decisions and connections are made, Fate waits on the riverbank of Story, leaving us to our mistakes and miracles, because it’s our will alone that leads us to one or the other.”
Source: The Mountain Shadow
“The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.”
Source: The Regeneration Trilogy
“The past is a pebble in my shoe.”
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“The past is a place we can visit but cannot live there.”
Source: Snackable Existentialism: Small Portions, Big Ideas
“The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.”
“The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest ways. She sees it directly; I see its shadow. Still, it pulses in my fingertips, feeds on my consciousness. It is a backdrop for each act, each drama of our lives. I have absorbed a sense of what she has suffered, what she has lost, even what her mother endured and handed down. It is my emotional gene map.”
Source: Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past
“The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.”
“The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.”
Source: Elric The Stealer of Souls
“The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark.”
“The past is a sorry country.”
“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
“The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.”
“The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.”
“The past is a teacher, not a home—take the lessons, cherish the memories, and keep moving forward.”
“The past is a terrible place to live, but some people can make a home nowhere else.”
Source: Heart In Dixie
“The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.”
“The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken?”
“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.”
“The past is a very volatile subject. If anything in the past has hurt you, it is likely to recur in your memory from time to time and hurt you afresh.”
Source: Jadu
“The past is a whirlpool. If you let it dominate your present moment, it will suck you in. Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.”
Source: The Forty Rules of Love
“The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.”
“The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.”
Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell
“The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished
“The past is all we know of the future.”
Source: The Lacuna
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment”
“The past is already past. Don't try to regain it. The present does not stay. Don't try to touch it from moment to moment. The future has not come. Don't think about it beforehand.”
“The past is always a rebuke to the present.”
Source: Robert Penn Warren talking: interviews, 1950-1978
“The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.”
“The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.”
“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”