Past Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about past.

Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez

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The memory of the heart erases bad memories and magnifies the good ones, and thanks to that artifice, we manage to cope with the past.

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami

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What has already happened is like a plate broken into a thousand pieces. No matter how hard you try, you can't return it to its original state.

Paul VI

Paul VI

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Do not despise the memory of the path traveled. It does not delay your race, but directs it; he who forgets the starting point easily loses the goal.

George Orwell

George Orwell

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If who controls the past, controls the future, who controls the present, controls the past?

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

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The past is what you remember, what you imagine remembering, what you convince yourself to remember, or what you pretend to remember.

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

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The past is a bucket full of ashes. Don't live in the yesterday or in the tomorrow, but in the here and now.

Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg

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Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never arrives. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, stay still and listen.

George Santayana

George Santayana

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Baruch Spinoza

Baruch Spinoza

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If you do not want to repeat the past, study it.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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Nothing disturbs the past centuries. We cannot elicit a sigh from the old.