Quotes on “past”

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.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

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

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

The past is made out of facts... I guess the future is just hope.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

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

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

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

My past is everything I failed to be.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

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.