Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity.
Past Quotes
To prepare for the future, examine the present. To understand the present, study the past.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Man… cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
What’s past is prologue. (The Tempest)
I fritter away My life much too fast, With fears for the future, And regrets for the past.
They spend their time mostly looking forward to the past.
Oh, cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
