| Author |
Quotes |
| Adrienne Rich | Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. |
| Alexandre Dumas Pere | Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy |
| Alfred Bunn | The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past |
| Carl Sandburg | I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. |
| Charles Kingsley | Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. |
| Charles Wolfe | Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up. |
| Charles Wright | It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. |
| Finley Peter Dunne | The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here. |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him. |
| Gerald Barzan | As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. |
| Henri Bergson | The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
| Henri Louis Bergson | The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. |
| Henry Arthur Jones | O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday. |
| Jacques Du Lorens | The days of rejoicing are gone forever. |
| John Guare | We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word? |
| Kenneth Auchincloss | It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it. |
| Leslie Poles Hartley | The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. |
| Mike Huybensz | Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.". |
| Mortimer Collins | O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight. |
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