In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.

This is your life. This is your moment. Think of all you have been through just to get here… MAKE IT COUNT!

There’s more exclusivity than ever before in the past.

I did not regret any single thing I have done in my life in the past since the day I was already conscious of what I was and am doing, nor the things I have...

A picture’s worth a thousand words. But a single word can make you think of over a thousand pictures in your mind, over a thousand moments, a thousand memories.

Our archives are treasure troves – a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past...

…the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over.

Maybe, it is just enough to believe with a positive heart that people didn’t let you down. It could be just this: They couldn’t give you the compassion you really wanted based on where their...

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed.

Entah kenapa, masa lalu selalu membuat gue tertawa setiap kali gue mengingatnya. (Catatan Mantan Playboy, halaman 137)

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world...

Leave everything behind and move forward.

I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I’ve done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn’t sound forced. Maybe that’s because it’s all music that I...

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he’s told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he’s pulling it out of...

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead...

We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now.

I want something that is nothing like the past.

Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn’t have done a particular thing, don’t stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this...

A thick rivulet of lost blood reflects a city that will mourn but never die.

In the past, there has always been an exemption for basic research, but the problem here is that that exemption is essentially being set aside. So the issue here is, what are the rules going...

The strategy is much clearer than it has been in the past.

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old,...

I probably prefer Spanish football to the others. It’s very technical, the way they play; they keep the ball well, and whenever Spurs have played against Spanish teams in the past, they’ve always made it...

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man’s past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it...

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around…

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past. Look at Michael Jackson, he never evolved.

I don’t think they could have been locked in a room 24/7 over the past week and come up with this retirement agreement without coming closer to an understanding on the Delphi wage situation.

We go to the past to lay the blame – since the past can’t argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing...

The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed.

Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.from the book ‘I Know Who You Are!

Stay More’ is synonymous with ‘Status Quo’ in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain...

In the past 3-4 years I’ve developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I’m able to commit to tape memory song ideas...

Yesterday I smiled, tomorrow never came and today is what I’m living.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

My past is everything I failed to be.

I played Nina in ‘The Seagull,’ and I remember thinking it’s incredible to see all the actresses in the past that’ve played her. It’s quite strengthening. You feel a part of the family of actresses...

The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face...

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present – the new chance.

For me, the past is dead. Can’t go back.

I started jogging past the site during construction. I’m going to apply for a job, since I’m nearby.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars” – she paused at remembered sweetness – “we were so foolish then…thinking there was a big ol’ world out there to conquer.

It’s a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of...

They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past… They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a...

It’s just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.