Past And Present Quotes

“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”
― Steve Goodier

“Fuck the past. This was the present.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.”
― Kage Baker

“I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.”
― Glen Cook, Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery

“भरिएको भाँडो खाली नगरेसम्म त्यसमा अरू केही राख्न मिल्दैन । अतीतको दुःखलाई समातेर राखिरहे वर्तमानको सुख र खुसीलाई कसरी र कहाँ ठाउँ दिने ?”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“An overflowing pot must be emptied before anything new can be added. If you cling to the sorrows of the past, how can you make space for the happiness and joy of the present?”
― Sanu Sharma, विप्लवी [Biplavi]

“Until an overflowing pot is emptied, nothing else can be added to it. If you keep holding onto the sorrows of the past, how and where will you make room for the happiness and joy of the present?”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”
― Rose Macaulay, The Pleasure of Ruins

“He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.”
― Ashim Shanker, Don't Forget to Breathe

“Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past.”
― James Joyce, The Dead

“It's all history out there, Clemens. Your history, my history. You and me, boy, not dates and things. You and me. That's what history is all about. How we came to be here, in the way we are, the clothes we wear.”
― David Wiseman, Jeremy Visick

“Sometimes people rise above their past, sometimes not. And sometimes the people you least expect it from—like Raylan and my father—
have a way of surprising you in the end.”
― Kayla Cunningham, Fated to Love You

“Every book is a conversation with the past, present, and future.”
― Educator X, Tango Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide To Tango Dance & Culture

“The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.”
― P.D. James, Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

“Memories are both helpful and hurtful and we decide which to keep alive.”
― Steve Goodier

“Hypothetically, time is similar to distance.”
― Lana M. Rochel, Christmas Came Early That Year: no cover book mystery

“A good memory tempts us to live in the past.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The past always finds a way to catch up with us. Remember that.”
― Artnoob 100, Till Our Worlds Collide Vol. 1: (Light Novel)

“...What happened is in the past. You have to be strong and keep going. Always keep going. Things may not be perfect, but they'll be better.”
― Danie Ellis, Medei The Ghosts of Thornhills

“Learn from your past and be better because of your past," she would say, "but don't cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don't hold onto it. Don't be bitter.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“You can't go home again.

If an experience was wonderful, don't try to re-create it.

It will never be as beautiful as it was the first time.”
― Iris Apfel, Iris Apfel: Accidental Icon

“Don't let the errors or terrors of the past or any fear you might have about them in the here and now, spoil today, tomorrow - or even one more second of your life. Just don't! Don't worry about them! Don't commiserate about them! Don't dwell on them! Don't beat yourself (or anyone else!) up about them! Don't hold grudges over them! Let them go, and accept that each new day, each hour even - is actually, in many ways, independent of the last. What a gift! Embrace it! Learn to be grateful for this miracle of life!”
― Connie Kerbs

“Ваше минуле - це ваше минуле, подобається вам це чи ні, пам'ятаєте ви його свідомо чи ні, берете за нього відповідальність чи ні. Багато з того, що сталось у минулому, було не вашою провиною (може, там взагалі не було нічиєї провини, а може, у чомусь були винні й ви), але події у вашому житті є вашими і завжди будуть вашими. Ви не можете повернутись у минуле і змінити їх, навіть якщо вони здаються незавершеними чи несправедливими.”
― Джейн Бурка, Procrastination: Why You Do It, What To Do About It

“Often...
In reflecting on the past, we discover fragments of our present selves hidden within the chapters of our history—
A realization that our journey is a continuous narrative, shaped by the echoes of who we once were.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“We should make a rule that we only spend some of our time talking about the past. It doesn’t mean we care about them less. It just means that we still have to live.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

“A new trunk had grown, covering the scar of the burn with thick new growth. Not hiding it, no, for the past could never be hidden, but embracing it with new hope and new dreams so that both past and present formed one unified trunk that continued to shelter our people as we lived on in the shadows of the great Blue Mountains that had seen an eternity and stood ready to face another.”
― J A Croome, The Sand People: a collection of magical realism and other stories

“When I look at the past I do it in the present, it becomes the present and I don't have any desire to cling to it. I make the three piles of stuff that we have all made at some time: a pile to keep, a pile to go, and a pile that I don't know what to do with.”
― Marc Hamer, Spring Rain

“We heal the past by living in the present and visioning the future we deserve.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Inasmuch as relics are a reminder of history, your past shouldn't be a bridge between what was and what remains for gossips, rumours and personal attacks.”
― Eduvie Donald

“Let’s never say ‘tomorrow,’ because all we ever have is the moment. People think there’s a future, but there really isn’t, not if we want to be totally honest with ourselves. There’s the past, which we might wish desperately that we can change, and there’s now. If we don’t seize the now with all our might, it becomes just another part of the past that we end up wishing we could change.”
― Dean Koontz, The Other Emily