Quotes on Past

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”

“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”

“I had someone once who made every day mean something.And now…. I am lost….And nothing means anything anymore.”

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”

“If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.”

“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”

“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”

“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”

“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”

“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.”

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

“There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.”

“Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.”

“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”

“The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.”

“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”

“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”

“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”

“Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.”

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”

“The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.”

“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.”

“The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .”

“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.”

“As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

“Loving you feels like my commitment to eternity a long time ago”

The past is a place that is not there anymore. It is a shadow, an echo. It does not exist, except in the mind, in the heart.

Memory is the means by which we draw our past closer, making it more intimate, more immediate.

One thing about your past; it’s your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

No matter how many times you visit the past, there’s nothing new to see.

You are not defined by your past; you are prepared by it.

Your past does not define you; it is just a chapter in your story.

You cannot change your past, but you can change your future.

You can’t change the past, but you can learn from it.

The past is not dead. It is not even past.

The past is not dead. It is not even past.

Scars remind us that the past was real.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does expand the future.

Forgiveness isn’t about forgetting; it’s about releasing yourself from the chains of the past.