Past Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about past.

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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As long as there are books, the past does not exist.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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The best prophet of the future is the past.

John Cage

John Cage

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No need to destroy the past, it's gone; at any moment, it can reappear, seem to be, and be present.

John Cage

John Cage

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No need to give up the past when entering the future. When things change, it's not necessary to lose them.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric Chopin

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It is useless to go back to what has been and is no longer.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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If the present tries to judge the past, it will lose the future.

Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

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After forty years, our true face is on the back of our neck, desperately looking backwards.

Juan Donoso Cortés

Juan Donoso Cortés

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In the past lies the history of the future.

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

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The past never dies, it is not even past.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.