For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment.
Past Quotes
Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past – and can’t be restored.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
The key to convincing the other side that reconciliation is possible is to give an unequivocal signal of turning one’s back on the past.
You can’t live in the past, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.