past Quotes

"If you want to know the future, look at the past."

"The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions."

"I'm more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live."

"Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past."

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting... ...

"There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. Every part of your life has unfolded just right."

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.