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Posterity will say as usual: In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov

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

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future. — Matthew Fox

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

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them. — Cassandra Clare

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

Magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened. — Jo Walton

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

You have to look past the cool things and play the game. That's why you're here, to play the game. — Matt Holliday

Things that happen along the way determine the final result. I think the pain and suffering I went through in the past ... lead me here today. — Lee Dong-wook

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not? — Lisa Mangum

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

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

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new. — Chris O'Dowd

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

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. — William Shakespeare

Blaming things on the past does not make them better. — Nelson Mandela

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 saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life. — Lindsay Lohan

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

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

There ae things we cannot change so it's better not to talk about what happened. Past is past. — Marcia Weber Martins

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

And all the things that break you are all the things that make you strong. You can't change the past 'Cause it's gone, and you just gotta move on. — Carrie Underwood

All remembrance of things past is fiction. — Ernest Hemingway,

The past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over. — Tim Winton

I'm past photographing to see what things look like photographed. — Sally Mann

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

Why ever long for something from the past when the future brings things that are so much better? -Cyrus — Avery Williams

There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21. — Jeff Lemire

I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of. — Ken Osmond

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

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

Kerry is an adult - he thinks things through. He learns from the present as well as the past. To George Bush, thinking things through is for sissies. — Richard Dreyfuss

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

All things fade into the storied past, and in a little while are shrouded in oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

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

Stop looking forward to things, look inward instead. — Kamand Kojouri

Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with you. Anywhere. — Jessica Shirvington

Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We try to keep the beautiful memories, but other things from the past creep up on us. — Edwidge Danticat

Remembrance of things past. — William Shakespeare

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

O thoughts of men accurs'd! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst — William Shakespeare

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

[ ... ] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them. — Rebecca Serle

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you. — Mark Lawrence

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

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been. — Emily Giffin

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. — Robert Smith

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

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.' — Brian Eno

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear. — Shirley Temple

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

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward. — Kapil Dev

There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid. — Lisa Gardner

You know, I guess I just don't like to talk a lot about sad things. Now you know my flaw. What good does it do to talk about sad things in the past? — James Patterson

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

Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you. — Rick Yancey

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books. — Eric Jerome Dickey

Things didn't really go away. You just learned to push them deeper. — Elizabeth Brundage

When you're young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old ... you wish for things from the past to — Lorraine Heath

I'm constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now. — Valerie June

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

You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other. — Drake

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

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before. — Art Buchwald

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

Not everything in your past qualifies to be called HISTORY; only the things in the past that shaped your FUTURE — Fela Durotoye

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

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. — Anne Lamott

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

Things change whether you want them to, or not
unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it. — Patricia Briggs

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

Some things can't be ignored. You can only conquer your past if you choose to face it. — Linda Wisdom

The nation provided a human with the things that are most human - language and a past that stretched back before his birth. — George Friedman

You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me. — Joe Wright

No matter how wonderful things used to be, we cannot live in the past. The joy and excitement we feel here and now are more important. — Marie Kondo

And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past. — G.A. McKevett

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past. — Charlie Sheen

Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past. — Janet Gurtler

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

Total freedom from your past; both the good and the bad things is the foundation for a successful life. — Sunday Adelaja

What haunts me far more than anything I've ever done are the things I haven't done. — Dan Pearce

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, present, and future. — Kurt Vonnegut

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

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don't wanna be focusing on the past. — Angelina Jolie