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The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often. -- Laura Palmer
The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. -- George Orwell
Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Our past has gone into history. -- William Mckinley
The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. -- Mignon Mclaughlin
The past is a finite resource. -- Douglas Coupland
We do not live in the past, but the past in us. -- Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
the past is only the future with the lights on. -- Blink-182
The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow. -- Samuel R. Delany
You can't have the past. Only the future, and the future is, of course, completely uncertain. -- Jean Oram
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you. The -- Frank Herbert
The past can't touch you unless you let it. -- Edie Claire
The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown. -- Jeanette Winterson
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. -- Dan Simmons
Past is past, and the future is ahead. -- Robert Jordan
That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows. -- Elif Shafak
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. -- Israel Zangwill
Only fools prefer the past! -- Frank Herbert
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? -- John Updike
The past is a closed door. -- Margaret Atwood
Sometimes the past can vanish. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The past never went away and it was not designed to do so.
It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout
The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... -- Henri Bergson
The past is the past. It may be the reason why we've become who we are today, but we can change our tomorrow. Another past is seconds away. -- Nashoda Rose
The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away -- Megan Miranda
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. -- Mary Webb
The past isn't over. It isn't even past. -- William Faulkner
The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present. -- Steven Aitchison
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ... -- Martha Ostenso
The past is getting clearer and clearer -- Bulat Okudzhava
For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past -- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The past is no farther away than your pillow. -- Frank Herbert
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time. -- George Balanchine
There is a reason why past is past. -- Dean Francis Alfar
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. -- James Joyce
The past is another planet. -- Neil Degrasse Tyson
The future qualifies the past. -- Sridhar Bodapati
You change the past when you change the way you see it. -- Alan Cohen
The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it. -- Marjorie F. Baldwin
The past is but the past of a beginning. -- H.g.wells
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. -- Kate Atkinson
The past is a good place for the past. -- Deb Caletti
We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us. -- Samuel Pisar
The past is dead, and has no resurrection. -- Henry Kirke White
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Time goes from present to past. -- Shunryu Suzuki
The past is only as alive as we keep it by remembering. -- Lisa Maxwell
Less past, more future! -- Michael Gates Gill
As and old (and clandestine) Soviet joke used to express it, the problem with the past...is that it is always so unpredictable. -- Francis X. Blouin
Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it. -- Alamvusha
The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood. -- Don Winslow
The past is just something that's over. -- Christopher Isherwood
The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us. -- Martha Graham
In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. -- Asa Don Brown
I wonder why we hate the past so. -- William Dean Howells
The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach. -- Joanna Denny
The past is gained, secure, and on record. -- Robert Browning
The past can be tamed and controlled. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within. -- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it. -- Charles S. Maier
You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future. -- Debasish Mridha
What is past, one cannot change,
so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away. -- James Conroyd Martin
The past is what you take with you. -- Kate Atkinson
I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored. -- D.c. Hubbard
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. -- Adele Parks
There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten. -- Tom Robinson
The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn. -- Stormie O'martian
The past is a country to which one cannot return -- Ken Liu
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present. -- Gautama Buddha
You would never be past but you're my present, future & forever -- Subhasis Das
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. -- Oscar Wilde
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. -- William Faulkner
The past doesn't go away. You just can't see it anymore. -- Paula Morris
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill. -- V.s. Naipaul
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. -- Wendell Berry
I don't live in the past. -- Joe Montana
Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty. -- Ivan Doig
The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken? -- Emily Thorne
The past is a kind of future that has already happened. -- Bruce Sterling
What is past is prologue. -- William Shakespeare
When the past is mentioned, some cry! When the past is mentioned, some ponder! When the past is mentioned, never again comes into the mind of some people. When the past is mentioned, some recall their had I known! The past is past, but its footprints never go! -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. -- Raymond E. Feist
The past lives through us. We are its legacy. -- Marty Rubin
The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.
Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.
Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end. -- Stephen Baxter
I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me -- Jamie Ford
I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future. -- Anton Walbrook
Past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it. -- Skyla
The present is the key to the past -- Charles Lyell
The past is blind. The future is unwanting. All you need is in front of you. -- Dennis T. Maglinte
The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. -- Wiz Khalifa
I have no past
the steps have disappeared
the wind has blown them away. -- James Kavanaugh
For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. -- Jonathan Ames
Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past -- Nicholas Sparks
what is now in the past was once in the future'. -- Anonymous
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. -- L.p. Hartley
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. -- Bruce Lee
Where does the past go when it changes? -- Juan Gabriel Vasquez
