Past Quotes

If we open a quarrel between past and present we shall find that we have lost the future.

No one should care if the Rolling Stones have broken up, should they? I mean, when the Beatles broke up, I couldn't give a shit. Thought it was a very good idea. Why should I live in the past just for their petty... satisfaction?

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

I try not to look back. I'm looking forward. I'm worried more about what I'm going to do next week than I am what I did last week. There are too many things to do. Looking back is for everybody else.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, so I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Lust for the future, treasure the past.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

Don't look back unless it's a good view.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.

It's nice to look back on your life and see things as lessons, and not regrets.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.