Every past is worth condemning.
Past Quotes
And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
What’s past is prologue. (The Tempest)
I fritter away My life much too fast, With fears for the future, And regrets for the past.
They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
Oh, cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.