Quotessence
Home / Topics / Past Quotes

Past Quotes

Browse 13378 quotes about Past.

Related topics

IfsPeopleThinkingYearsWayKnowsWorldMenHas BeensOur PastMomentsLooksWantMemoriesTodayYour PastMindTryingFeelsDoneMayNeedsLongShouldGivingMovingMy PastRememberStillsMadeBelieveMeanOver The PastWellsPersonsWritingDoeKindHumansFirstsDifferentLittlesAgeTwoHappenedI CanForgetSeemsCountryImportantLastsRealSaidFutureSometimesBookArtDreamMatterStoriesHistoryChildrenHeartLifeInspirationalEndsGonePast LifeRealityOur FutureEventsIdeasFactsMistakeHappensAbleReasonMightUseRegretWholeTimeProblemLyingStatesFeelingsUsedLife IsSelfActionHelpingCenturyEnoughHardWould BeAmericaFormBehindsFacesSoulmore

Past Quotes

“Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.”

IfsKnowsNeedsLastsPastPleasureErrorsEach DayCritique
Book:The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death; Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton
Create image

“In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.”

LooksEyeLastsPastDiesSpeakHoursGloryThirdsBallsPaidVariousBritishScreensReputationIndianQueensCharming
Book:The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)
Create image

“This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.”

WorldHumansHas BeensIdeasPastOrderCultureCommunityQualityProgressThis WorldChangedReturnNotionNew WorldUnitsSociety And Culture
Book:Uncommon Sense
Create image

“Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.”

MindLongPastWaterHoursFieldsWindCastsForestsWheelsAutumnSpellsGrindMillsBindingLong DayReaperAutumn Wind
Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns
Create image

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.”

RealitySeemsPastFallDecisionExistenceSituationVisionTakenStrangeAdvantageResponseIntuitionConvincedMoodRecognitionLogicalSignificanceSuspicionVentureStrainSequenceMy PastPast LifeImmediacyRetrospectiveNew Ventures
Author:Ansel Adams
Create image

“This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal.”

KnowsRealRealitySeemsPastRealizingEventsIdentityFunctionAriseDependentRemarkableParadoxPrincipalFuture Events
Book:All the King's Men
Create image

“So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.”

WorldInspirationalHumansLastsPastMotherPassionRaceTeachSawsBlindHuman RaceBlindnessBrooding
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
Create image