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I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past. — Berthe Morisot

There's no future in stories ... Stories are things of the past, things for museums. — David Mitchell

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. — Tadao Ando

Nothing Can Change Your Past ... But Not Worrying About Things To Come, Will Help Change Future. — Timothy Pina

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past. — David Rockefeller

Life is too short to dwell on the crappy things of the past. — Jayda Skidmore

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events. — Alber Elbaz

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy? — Stephen Richards

The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity. — G. Stanley Hall

You can't change the things you've done. It's now and the here on out you've got control of. — Mindy McGinnis

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. — Dan Simmons

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end. — Esther Meynell

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance. — M.L. Stedman

Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining heart of things — Jude Morgan

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. — Gregory David Roberts

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him. — Thomas Hobbes

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought ... — William Shakespeare

Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain. — Arthur Waley

I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind. — Brian Eno

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. — Bob Hope

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change. — Vanilla Ice

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave. — Richard Ford

All things pass ... Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people. — Mizuki Nomura

Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left? You have stripped me even of my past, even of the things we never shared. — C.S. Lewis

Favorite People, Favorite Places,
Favorite Memories of the past ...
These are the joys of a lifetime
Those are the things that last — Henry Van Dyke

Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless. — Richard Baxter

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present. — Margaret Feinberg

Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future. — Susan Williams

Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war? — William Butler Yeats

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you. — Michael Dolan

A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future. — T.J. Fisher

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past. — Pierre Corneille

Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses. — Michael J. Rosen

Your past - It's not a series of mistakes, love. It's just you. All the things that happened to you that made you who you are. — Ruthie Knox

One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past. — Guy Oseary

Something even minor I do is going to be reported because of things that have happened in the past. You have to be aware of that. — Patrick Kane

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

When from a long distant past nothing subsists after the things are
broken and scattered, the smell and taste of things remain. — Marcel Proust

Robert had been thoughtless with his son in the past. It would be a long time of pain and care until things were right between them. — Cassandra Clare

Dreams are composed of many things, my son. Of images and hopes, of fears and memories. Memories of the past, and memories of the future ... — Neil Gaiman

Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time. — Bob Dylan

Anyone who's read all of Proust plus The Man withour Qualities is bound t be missing out on a few other titles. — Lorrie Moore

Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward. — Devon Monk

I've done a lot of bad things in the past, and that troubles me. It is often before I could say I was a self. — Malcolm Morley

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future. — Frank Underhill

The idea of being all things to all people is a thing of the past. — Michael Dell

Taste for things of the past evolves, doesn't it? What was a masterpiece a hundred years ago is no longer so today. — Alberto Giacometti

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. — Marcel Proust

the remembrence of things past is not nessecarly the remeberance of things as they were — Marcel Proust

We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones. — John Flavel

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable — Peter Ackroyd

There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Resentment and bitterness and old grudges were dead things, which rotted the hands that grasped them. — Winston Graham

can do without a lot of things, the only thing I can't do without is the past. [ — Svetlana Alexievich

Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future. — Mario Puzo

Of the many things we have done to democracy in the past, the worst has been the indignity of taking it for granted. — Max Lerner

All the best things that happened to me happened after I was rejected. I knew the power of getting past no. — Barbara Corcoran

I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains. — Henry David Thoreau

How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear. — Marcus Aurelius

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now. — Danny Masterson

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego. — Bell Hooks

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. — Jamaica Kincaid

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons. — James Russell Lowell

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death. — Albert Camus

The oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com — Elyne Mitchell

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment. — Theodor Adorno

All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not.' I — Irene Hannon

Things could crawl at you out of the dark and hurt you again and again. The past did not always stay dead. — Ashley Gardner

When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past! — Mark Gorton

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force. — Dawn M. Turner

Don't you be thinking,' she says, 'on things that are done and can't be changed. All right, dear girl? You think of the time to come. — Sarah Waters

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain. — Ayn Rand

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past. — Pierre Boulez

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past. — William Shakespeare

We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses. — Lauren Oliver

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past. — Walt Disney Company

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been. — Agathon

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought. — Patrick Rothfuss

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past. — Paulette Goddard

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself. — Shania Twain

It's said, after all, that people reach middle age the day they realize they're never going to read Remembrance of Things Past. — Alison Bechdel

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface, — Matt Mullenweg

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. — Bram Stoker

...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happened, did. — Raymond E. Feist

Stop being a coward and let go of the past. Embrace the future, because they are two very different things. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future. — Holland Cotter

Trivial things that you did in the past can turn the lives of others insane. It happens all the time. — Ryohgo Narita