I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering and that was the fact that it is past – and can’t be restored.
Past Quotes
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
The key to convincing the other side that reconciliation is possible is to give an unequivocal signal of turning one’s back on the past.
You can’t live in the past, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
If you wallow in the past you’ll stay there.
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 […]
Every past is worth condemning.
