Past Quotes

Here are some nice quotes on past to make you all look ahead while enjoying the present.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
~John Cage

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.
~George Orwel

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
~Oscar Wilde

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
~Pliny the Elder

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was so in the present moment the past was no longer part of me.
~Laurel Hoodwrit

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
~Thomas Jefferson

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
~Golda Meir

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
~Oscar Wilde

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.
~DomÈnico Cieri Estrada

Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
~Unknown Author

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
~Virginia Woolf

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
~Wendell Berry

The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thus, we never live but we hope to live; and always hoping to be happy, it is inevitable that we will never be so.
~Blaise Pascal

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
~Oscar Wilde

You have to know the past to understand the present.
~Dr. Carl Sagan

The Past lies upon the Present like a giant’s dead body.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
~Jan Glidewell

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
~Lesley P. Hartley

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~Paul Boese’s famous quote about the past

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
~Oscar Wilde

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
~Paul Eldridge

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
~Leslie Poles Hartley

The past is not a package one can lay away.
~Emily Dickinson

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
~Wayne Dyer

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
~AndrÈ Maurois

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
~Charles R. Swindoll

What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now.
~Author Unknown

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