Quotes about Past

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me.

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to enable us at some level of our being to inhabit that same eternity which it is said that God himself inhabits.

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

Like Jesus, every human being has enough memories in his past to occupy his time and thoughts continually. It is not the remembrance of these incidents but the reliving of them that creates havoc in our souls.

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

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

The stains on the mattress. Like dried flower petals. Not recent. Old love; there's no other kind of love in this room now.

That was all quite long ago. I see it in retrospect, indulgently, from the point I've reached now. But how else could I see it. We can't really travel to the past, no matter how we try. if we do, it's as tourists.

I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except

I watched your snapshot fade for twenty years.