Past Quotes

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I might have had too many friends in my twenties.

Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

Judge me by my past, don’t get mad when I put you there.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.