The world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the arts and sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievements. The accumulation of knowledge has been so great, that we are lost in wonder at the height it has reached, instead of attempting to climb or add to it… What […]
Past Quotes
Every past is worth condemning.
And there is no regret, either, in the sense of wishing the past to return, or missing it: it is quite real enough as it is, there at its own date and place.
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.
