PAST QUOTES

quotations about the past

Past quote

The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.

KARL MARX

The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

LEWIS CARROLL

Alice in Wonderland

Tags: Lewis Carroll


After all, the past is such a little thing, one can drown it in a drop. And the future is so big.

STELLA BENSON

I Pose

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One's past is what one is.

OSCAR WILDE

Epigrams & Aphorisms

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The past is never dead. It's not even past.

WILLIAM FAULKNER

Requiem for a Nun

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It's no surprise the 'Good Old Days' seem better than the Present ... They've spent more time in Editing!

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, January 24, 2000

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Nothing is ever behind us.

ROBERTO BOLAÑO

2666

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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

WILLIAM GOLDING

New York Times, October 7, 1983

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Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future.

MAXIM GORKY

"Creatures that Once were Men"

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The past beats inside me like a second heart.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Sea

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The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

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Each future day increase of wealth shall bring,
And o'er the past Oblivion stretch her wing.

HOMER

The Odyssey

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Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

SARAH DESSEN

What Happened to Goodbye?

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

OSCAR WILDE

Epigrams & Aphorisms

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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten.

CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the Pretty Horses

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He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

GEORGE ORWELL

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now

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You can't change the past, it just is.

ALYSON NOËL

Shadowland

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We go to the past to lay the blame -- since the past can't argue.

GLEN DUNCAN

Love Remains

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Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Simulacra and Simulation

Tags: Jean Baudrillard