Past Quotes

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.

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

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

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

Love isn't love until it's past.

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

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

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.

It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only since it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.