Quotes on “past”

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

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

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

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

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

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.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

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