Quotes about the past

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them – their past, their history, their story.

Eckhart Tolle

Upper classes are a nation’s past the middle class is its future.

Ayn Rand

There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.

Cesare Pavese

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Dante Alighieri

As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I’m grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

Marilyn Monroe

Hopefully, whether it’s energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe – a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there – these things are why the future’s going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we’ll be there making the case.

Bill Gates

It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.

Louise Hay

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

Oscar Wilde