Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.
Past Quotes
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles and causes you to bump into people not going your way.
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. (“The Great Gatsby”)
We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don’t think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you’re hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and […]
He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
The age of chivalry is gone. – That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
I think we agree, the past is over. (On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000)
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks – and especially admit of different interpretations.
