PAST QUOTES IV
quotations about the past
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Youth, hope, and love:
To build a new life on a ruined life,
To make the future fairer than the past,
And make the past appear a troubled dream.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
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The Masque of Pandora
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We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
RICK WARREN
The Purpose Driven Life
My past is everything I failed to be.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
But we look ahead to the far off skies,
For the years are flying fast,
And we know that the present that round us lies
Ere the light of a few more moments dies,
Will with many loved and severed ties
Fade into the mist-veiled past.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"The Beautiful Past"
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number--"
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY
Untimely Thoughts
All the past is not worth one today.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"New Year"
The past is referred to as being dead; but it is terribly alive.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
The Hour of the Dragon
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
FRANK HERBERT
God Emperor of Dune
When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.
ANDRE GIDE
If It Die
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies enable the future by limiting this power of the past. Ours is less and less a free society.
LAWRENCE LESSIG
keynote address at the Open Source Convention, OSCON, July 24, 2002
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other ... for only out of the past can you make the future.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
All the King's Men
See, there's nothing wrong with the past; the past is a good thing, but that's not all there is.
PAT BENATAR
interview, AV Club, August 26, 1997
Beyond here lies nothin'
But the mountains of the past
BOB DYLAN
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'"
Keep out of the Past! for its highways
Are damp with malarial gloom;
Its gardens are sere and its forests are drear,
And everywhere moulders a tomb.
Who seeks to regain its lost pleasures,
Finds only a rose turned to dust;
And its storehouse of wonderful treasures
Are covered and coated with rust.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Keep Out of the Past"
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Written on the Body
The past is gained, secure, and on record.
ROBERT BROWNING
letter to Elizabeth Barrett, March 1, 1845
The past is never where you think you left it.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
Ship of Fools