PAST QUOTES IV
quotations about the past
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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
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The Great Gatsby
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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
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--"
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
MAXIM GORKY
Untimely Thoughts
My past is everything I failed to be.
FERNANDO PESSOA
The Book of Disquiet
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
FRANK HERBERT
God Emperor of Dune
The past is referred to as being dead; but it is terribly alive.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE
Country Town Sayings
All the past is not worth one today.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"New Year"
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"
How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Written on the Body
I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
The Hour of the Dragon
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
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
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
The past is never where you think you left it.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER
Ship of Fools
A chorus of voices, the past alive in everything, that sea upon which the present tossed and rode.
WILLIAM GIBSON
All Tomorrow's Parties
Old events have modern meanings; only that survives
Of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
"Mahmood the Image-Breaker"
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
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"