Past Quotes

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks – and especially admit of different interpretations.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

In the carriages of the past you can’t go anywhere.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you – if you don’t repeat it.

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive – a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.