Best The Past Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Right then, I understood that the things that happened in the past was not who I was. They helped to etch notches in me, like Daddy when he whittled on a stick, but them things wasn’t who I was. What would make me, shape me, grow me, would be the decisions I’d make from here on out. Them things was up to me. One more time, things pointed to trust.”

Trust The Past

Book:What Momma Left Behind

Source: What Momma Left Behind

“Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn’t learn a thing. God doesn’t bring you lessons to close your heart. He brings you lessons to open it, by developing compassion, learning to listen, seeking to understand instead of speculating, practicing empathy and developing conflict resolution through communication. If he brought you perfect people, how would you ever learn to spiritually evolve?”

“Every quote, every book, every film seemed to suggest that ‘one day’ someone would come into my life and love me with an intensity and a passion I had never experienced before. And to their credit they were right; It all came and went so fast it really did feel as if it were just ‘one day’....”

“It’s the intricate details you miss the most. For me, it’s the soft lines around the eyes when he smiles… Or that look he gave me sometimes that I cannot begin to describe - but I would know it if I saw it again. It was the look that gave him away. I’d know that look anywhere… It used to be my everything.”

“I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.”

“When I was with him suddenly I wasn’t this broken person anymore. I was just me. I was whole again. I was just a person – like everyone else.”

“I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.”

“With you in my life I felt like I could conquer anything. It was as if I was on top of the world and even the stars themselves were just within my grasp. But without you …. even getting through the day is hard.”

“You can miss places. You can miss people. Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back. They’re not the same. You’re not the same. The loss of them changed you.”

“You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.”

“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life… But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday…. ….. and you’ll erase me completely.”

“A kiss…. ….. is just a kiss…. Until it’s all you reminisce. (Then the memory becomes your most treasured possession.)”

“I was yours once till death if you cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now--I can't hang about whining for ever--and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked and attend to your own happiness?”

Love Happiness Letting Go Heartbreak Moving On Couples The Past Maurice

Author:E.M. Forster

“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.”

“For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you.”

“Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.”

Nature Heartbreak The Past Hurts

Book:Hidden Bodies

Source: Hidden Bodies

“Yet it all seemed inevitable and perhaps it was. Is it fruitless to think about the past and build up coherent pictures of how one's life went wrong?”

Life Regret Inevitable Iris Murdoch The Past The Nice And The Good

Book:The Nice and the Good

Source: The Nice and the Good

“More than half of sexual pleasure comes from being in the present moment.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But I was still anxious. Trevor Trevor Trevor. I might have felt better if he were dead, I thought, since behind every memory of him was the possibility of reconciling, and thus more heartbreak and indignity. I felt weak. My nerves were frayed and fragile, like tattered silk. Sleep had not yet solved my crankiness, my impatience, my memory. It seemed like everything was now somehow linked to getting back what I'd lost. I could picture my selfhood, my past, my psyche like a dump truck filled with trash. Sleep was the hydraulic piston that lifted the bed of the truck up, ready to dump everything out somewhere, but Trevor was stuck in the tailgate, blocking the flow of garbage. I was afraid things would be like that forever.”

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Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Already my childhood seemed far away—a remote age, faded and bittersweet, like dried flowers. Did I regret its loss, did I want it back? I didn't think so.”

Memories Childhood Distance Moving On Looking Back Simile The Past Margaret Atwood The Blind Assassin

Book:The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Was she Minh Thuy, finally, or was she Jenny? But the time when there had been a meaningful difference between the two would come to seem like a tiny neighborhood where you couldn't decide which house was yours. Which felt important when you were high above, you thought, in the foothills, but not so much at the truer remove of a continent, where the lives you'd lived and the places you'd come from, dwindled to a single point on the horizon, in the incorrigibly distant past.”

Identity Sad Distance Remove Simile The Past City On Fire Garth Risk Hallberg

Book:City on Fire

Source: City on Fire

“The past came back to her in one of those rushing waves of emotion by which persons of sensibility are visited at odd hours.”

Emotion The Past Henry James The Portrait Of A Lady

Book:The Portrait of a Lady

Source: The Portrait of a Lady

“Don’t ever let your spouse or partner blame an outside person or persons for the ruin of your relationship or their past relationships. If two people are committed to one another then no one can change that.”

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Author:Shannon L. Alder

“Mindfulness is the art of making love to reality.”

Reality Imagination Meditation Mindfulness Stillness Here And Now The Past The Future The Present Moment The Present

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Sometimes in life, you may take a step, only to realize the steps you missed. Sometimes in life, you may delay a step taking, only to see a step you shouldn’t have miss. Notwithstanding the results of your steps, you still ought to take steps. Life keeps moving and you can’t afford to be static! Keep on moving on!”

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Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“When Christophe at last made up his mind to go to bed, chilled in body and soul, he heard the window below him shut. And, as he lay, he thought sadly that it is cruel for the poor to dwell on the past, for they have no right to have a past, like the rich: they have no home, no corner of the earth wherein to house their memories: their joys, their sorrows, all their days, are scattered in the wind.”

Poverty Memory The Past Social Class Privelege

Book:ژان کریستف: دوره ۴ جلدی

Source: ژان کریستف: دوره ۴ جلدی

“Remember that folklore is passed from one generation to the next to teach us about our past. If we lose it, we lose the links to our past. It only takes one desperate generation to change history- even erase it.”

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Book:Fourth Wing

Source: Fourth Wing

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Make tea. As the water boils, you think about the “her’s” like a love list. Valerie in the 4th grade, Naomi in the 6th, Linda in high school, Sammie in college, Camille from work, and the latest one to have signed your heart and left: Sophia. You think through each girl, wondering what she’s eating for breakfast. You miss them, not because you want a relationship, but because love only works in permanent marker.”

Loneliness Lovers Heartbreak Heartache Getting Older The Past The Goodbye Song Thinking About The Past Ex Lovers

Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“Insecure people often falsify the past, in order to make the future pure.”

“She had seen the faces of shattered dreams, the zippy Ziegfeld girls, the doll-faced divorcées, the wellborn wives in opulent ivory towers, knocked down and knocked right out.”

Women Nostalgia The Past 1920s

Book:Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale

Source: Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale

“I always thought it was pathetic that Reva had chosen to stay in the area after graduation, but passing through it in the cab, in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past.”

Understanding Despair Realization Stability The Past Ottessa Moshfegh My Year Of Rest And Relaxation

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?”

Happiness Memories Despair Memory Remembrance The Past Remembering

Author:Heather Chaplin

“If you want to know if someone was meant to be in your future, then remove all the worldly things about them from your mind. Don’t think about their looks, the intimate moments or their personality. Now, think about how they made you feel, how they improved your life and what virtues they possess that push you to want to become better. Did they bring you closer to God? Did they bring you to your life mission? Did they ever lie to you, betray you or made it impossible for you to feel comfortable speaking your mind? When you remove all the shine from a diamond, it becomes a glass rock. What value is it then? See beneath the surface and you will know who your future is with.”

“If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart. How can you? He has it.”

“THOREAU KNOWS (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.) Making sense of things, Trying to track Nine pebbles of sadness To their source. Sly crows Stole them a mile back, But Thoreau knows I should walk anyway Under sun-coined trees Thick with wood-thrush song Till I reach undergrowth Dense and itchy with the past Till the air cools and I am near Enough to con crow talk Mouth fulls, stories dark.”

Sadness Forest The Past Crows Thoreau

Book:Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

Source: Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

“[I]t is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.”

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Author:Zelda Fitzgerald

“I needed a time machine. I needed to run around the past and gather up all the old, unbroken parts of me and try to Frankenstein myself back together again. My healthy body, my unjaded sixteen-year-old heart, my baby brain. I may not make such a pretty monster, but at least I'd feel like myself again.”

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Book:Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

Source: Bent: How Yoga Saved My Ass

“If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.”

“I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore.”

“They say if we forget the past, then we’re doomed to repeat it, but the word ‘doomed’ is a bit strong, I’d say. It’s just the eternal return. You’ve got to fall in love with Fate. Imagine Sisyphus happy.”

Destiny History Fate Eternity The Past Sisyphus Eternal Return

Book:Dreck

Source: Dreck

“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”

Fate Fortune Africa The Past Zanzibar

Book:Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

Source: Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival

“After all, the past was no less ridiculous than the present. Both eras were made up of humans.”

Humanity Human Nature The Past

Book:Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Source: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

“It’s easy to forget that people from the past weren’t the two-dimensional black-and-white photos or line drawings you might encounter in some dry textbooks. They weren’t just gray-faced guys in top hats. They were living, breathing, joking, burping people, who could be happy or sad, funny or boring, cool or the lamest people you ever met in your life. They had no idea they were living in the past. They all thought they were living in the present.”

Humans Humanity Human Nature The Past

Book:Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

Source: Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them

“We show our animal nature by not living for the future, and our human nature by not living in the present.”

Mind Attention Focus Meditation Human Nature The Past Wandering The Future The Present Animal Nature

Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.”

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Author:Shannon Alder

“We may think our past is behind us. Yet, sometimes it is blatantly in our face. Moments, seemingly lost, become inextricably intertwined with consciousness in the Here and Now.”

Moments Inspirational Life The Past Linda Durham Still Moving

Author:Linda Durham

“A great mystery lies in the repetition and continuity of the renewal of that which is past. Culture perpetuates itself in memory and the big job is the reawakening of memory.”

Philosophy Inspirational Life Memory Meaning Of Life The Past

Author:Hans-George Gadamer

“anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody”

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Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.”