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The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown.
That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
what is now in the past was once in the future'.
Don't divide me into before and after.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you. The
The person of yesterday is in the shadows of the past.
The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.
The past is in the wastebasket.
To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.
Predate your telling me, T.T.
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
The past informs the present.
There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
The past is a finite resource.
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.
The past does not define, you the present does.
The future starts within a second from now.
The past was, within a second ago.
I thought of the future, and spoke of the past.
The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
I changed the past by walking back into it.
The habit of dwelling on the past, has a narrowing as well as a debilitating influence. Behind us, there is a small, - an almost insignificant measure of time; before us, there is an eternity. It is the natural tendency of the mind to magnify the one, and to diminish the other ...
The past is more than a memory.
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
The past is every second of your life up until now. Up until NOW. See how quickly the present is gobbled up by the past?
The present is ... Sorry, it's already gone. Hmm, it was just there a minute ago.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
The past is in the pastPast-- Idina Menzel
Arms wrapped around me, I looked over the past boxed up and piled haphazardly about, like memories in a person's brain. It was only a matter of knowing where a thought was and dusting it off.
The past is the prologue.
That was your past. I am your future.
We thought we were living in between-time, after this and before that, but it's the between-time that lasted.
Before the tears that tore us, when our history was before us.
The Past is what it was and did what its done....
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.
The past is the anchor that weighs us down.
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
The past is a blur, like fog only blurrier.
The past is useless
to me now:
an old suitcase
with mould in the lining,
heavy even when empty.
I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
Year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange
What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?
The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ...
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.
life before the monster
Date to question.
You should go tho the past, looking not for messages or warnings, but simply to be humbled by the weight of human experience that has preceded the brief flicker of your own few days.
The past is another planet.
You've gone back to the way you used to be before. The way you promised you'd never be again.
One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.
Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.
walk forwards in the radiance of the past
Before the cook arrived when she stood in a space no wider than a bench is long, back behind and to the left of the milk cans. Working dough. Working, working dough. Nothing better than that to start the day's serious work of beating back the past.
What You were Once, Was Also Because You Were Someone Else Before that
What matters it what went before or after,
Now with myself I will begin and end.
The past is a chatty companion, I can tell you.
Less past, more future!
Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Apart from the before, the now has little meaning. The now is only a thin slice of who I am; isolated from the rich deposits of before, it cannot be understood.
What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.
Every past used to be a future once upon a time
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
before she disappeared.
The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.
A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures.
How do you know that past exist?
I can't go back to yesterday because I was someone else then.
The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
The future qualifies the past.
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.
Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.
Only fools prefer the past!
There was something about the past - the reassurance that others had lived and loved and survived before me gave me something to cling to in the present.
The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I had made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you see what is dark.
There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I'd never had.
Some things belong to the past.
I exist only in the past.
Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.
With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.
The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.
The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.
Here between the hither and the farther shore
While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.
Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.
Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
The past is a funeral gone by.
I'm attracted to the past.
The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.
Memory is fragile and capricious; each of us remembers and forgets according to what is convenient. The past is a notebook with many leaves on which we jot down our lives with ink that changes according to our state of mind.
in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw. Before
We are tomorrow's past.
There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
once had been. The