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Thinking Of The Past Quotes

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees, ... one's happiness, one's reality? Virginia Woolf
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things. Tadao Ando
He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is... L. M. Montgomery
Dodie Smith quote: "Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because..."
Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real. Dodie Smith
Margaret Atwood quote: "When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick..."
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. Margaret Atwood
Steven Wright quote: "Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories."
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories. Steven Wright
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth half open, and gazed at her face. “What’s that?” “Henri Bergson,” she replied, licking the semen from the tip of his penis. [...] “I can’t think of anything special, but could you quote some more of that philosophy stuff? I don’t know why, but it might keep me from coming so quick. Otherwise I’ll lose it pretty fast. Haruki Murakami
Billy Corgan quote: "Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is..."
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present. Billy Corgan
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce. Virginia Gildersleeve
Jonathan Miller quote: "The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when..."
The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde. Jonathan Miller
Jean Henri Fabre quote: "The common people have no history: persecuted by the present,..."
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past. Jean Henri Fabre
Jane Austen quote: "Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen
We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the past by doing that...Also watch the flow of music. The melody as its expressed is changed by notes that come later. Just as the meaning of a sentence...you wait till later to find out what the... Alan Watts
Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so. Blaise Pascal
I do not know by what extraordinary mental accident modern writers so constantly connect the idea of progress with the idea of independent thinking. Progress is obviously the antithesis of independent thinking. For under independent or individualistic thinking, every man starts at the beginning, and goes, in all probability, just as far as his father before him. But if there really be anything of the nature of progress, it must mean, above all things, the careful study and assumption of the... Gilbert K. Chesterton

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