Quotes about the past

Past glories are poor feeding.

Isaac Asimov

There’s no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can’t re-create what’s over.

Chuck Palahniuk

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

John Steinbeck

But I can’t see anything any more: however much I search the past I can only retrieve scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, nor whether they are remembered or invented.

Jean-Paul Sartre

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That’s my main message.

Joel Osteen

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Byron Katie

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Barack Obama

Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

T. S. Eliot

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

George Orwell

The third rule of life is this: Everything you buy today is smaller, more expensive, and not as good as it was yesterday.

Andy Rooney