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The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment! By Leonard Jacobson Past Arrives Truth Moment Future

The past is in the wastebasket. By Abigail Thomas Wastebasket Past

The past should be culled like a box of fresh strawberries, rinsed of debris, sweetened judiciously and served in small portions, not very often. By Laura Palmer Strawberries Rinsed Debris Sweetened Portions

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. By George Orwell Past Records Memories Agree

Time is so fast that even ten years later is already a past! By Mehmet Murat Ildan Time Past Fast Ten Years

Our past has gone into history. By William Mckinley History Past

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it. By Mignon Mclaughlin Backs Past Strapped Feel

The past is a finite resource. By Douglas Coupland Resource Past Finite

We do not live in the past, but the past in us. By Ulrich Bonnell Phillips Past Live

the past is only the future with the lights on. By Blink-182 Past Future Lights

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow. By Samuel R. Delany Tomorrow Makes Past

You can't have the past. Only the future, and the future is, of course, completely uncertain. By Jean Oram Past Future Completely Uncertain

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you. The By Frank Herbert Past Endures Lies Wordlessly

The past can't touch you unless you let it. By Edie Claire Past Touch

The past is a grenade that explodes when thrown. By Jeanette Winterson Thrown Past Grenade Explodes

The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to. By Dan Simmons Buried Past Dead Things Rising

Past is past, and the future is ahead. By Robert Jordan Ahead Past Future

That is what the past was, that which you could not get rid of. The past did not resemble the crumbs spilled over a rug. You could not shake them out from open windows. By Elif Shafak Past Rid Rug Windows Resemble

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. By Israel Zangwill Past Cradle Prison Glamour Danger

Only fools prefer the past! By Frank Herbert Past Fools Prefer

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine? By John Updike Shine Past Moments Pricked Random

The past is a closed door. By Margaret Atwood Door Past Closed

Sometimes the past can vanish. By Barbara Kingsolver Vanish Past

The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful ... By Henri Bergson Ceased Exist Question Precisely Past

The past is the past. It may be the reason why we've become who we are today, but we can change our tomorrow. Another past is seconds away. By Nashoda Rose Past Today Tomorrow Reason Change

The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away By Megan Miranda Past Boxed Sight Stacked

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past. By Mary Webb Mute Invisible Precious Past Present

The past isn't over. It isn't even past. By William Faulkner Past

The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present. By Steven Aitchison Present Past Gift Unwrapped

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion ... By Martha Ostenso Past Passion Dim Avenue Walk

The past is getting clearer and clearer By Bulat Okudzhava Clearer Past

For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past By Rudolf Christoph Eucken Past Rightly Understood Mere

What is past, one cannot change,so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away. By James Conroyd Martin Past Changeso Backward Glance Bit

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. By W. Somerset Maugham Past Present Thing Matters Everlasting

The past is no farther away than your pillow. By Frank Herbert Pillow Past Farther

Howlong did it take for a past to die? By Richard Matheson Howlong Die Past

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time. By George Balanchine Present Past Continuous Time Part

There is a reason why past is past. By Dean Francis Alfar Past Reason

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. By James Joyce Past Future Present Flows Eternal

The past is another planet. By Neil Degrasse Tyson Planet Past

The future qualifies the past. By Sridhar Bodapati Past Future Qualifies

You change the past when you change the way you see it. By Alan Cohen Change Past

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions. By Christian Nestell Bovee Emotions Past Sepulchre Dead

The past only exists in the minds of those who choose to recall it. By Marjorie F. Baldwin Past Exists Minds Choose Recall

The past is but the past of a beginning. By H.g.wells Past Beginning

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. By Kate Atkinson Door Past Cupboard Full Light

The past is a good place for the past. By Deb Caletti Past Good Place

We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us. By Samuel Pisar Past Live Lives

The past is dead, and has no resurrection. By Henry Kirke White Dead Resurrection Past

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end. By Stephen Baxter Enmity Bitterness Past Distraction Envy

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. By Doris Kearns Goodwin Past Selfimage Simply Prism Subject

Time goes from present to past. By Shunryu Suzuki Time Past Present

The past is only as alive as we keep it by remembering. By Lisa Maxwell Remembering Past Alive

Less past, more future! By Michael Gates Gill Past Future

As and old (and clandestine) Soviet joke used to express it, the problem with the past...is that it is always so unpredictable. By Francis X. Blouin Soviet Clandestine Past Unpredictable Joke

Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it. By Alamvusha Picture Past Future Viewed Learn

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart. By Rabindranath Tagore Depart Past Time

The past isn't in the past. It's always with us. In our history. Our minds, our blood. By Don Winslow Past History Minds Blood

The past is just something that's over. By Christopher Isherwood Past

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us. By Martha Graham Past Dead Time People Timeless

In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence. By Asa Don Brown Past Simple Moment Minds Existence

I wonder why we hate the past so. By William Dean Howells Hate Past

The past is a reality that exists just beyond our reach. By Joanna Denny Reach Past Reality Exists

The past is gained, secure, and on record. By Robert Browning Secure Gained Record Past

The past can be tamed and controlled. By Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Controlled Past Tamed

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within. By Oodgeroo Noonuccal Past Dead Noone

Kisslikeyouneverhada past. By Brandon Villasenor Kisslikeyouneverhada Past

No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it. By Charles S. Maier Past Master Interrogate

You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future. By Debasish Mridha Past Live Future Tiny Gap

The past is what you take with you. By Kate Atkinson Past

I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored. By D.c. Hubbard Shallow Unmarked Peace Buried Past

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. By Adele Parks Past Learning Letting Vanishes Revisit

There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten. By Tom Robinson Forgotten Past

The past should not be a place where we live, but something from which we learn. By Stormie O'martian Live Learn Past Place

The past is a country to which one cannot return By Ken Liu Return Past Country

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present. By Gautama Buddha Present Past Future

You would never be past but you're my present, future & forever By Subhasis Das Future Forever Present Past

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. By Oscar Wilde Past Charm

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. By William Faulkner Past Real

The past doesn't go away. You just can't see it anymore. By Paula Morris Past Anymore

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill. By V.s. Naipaul Past Dead Kill

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. By Wendell Berry Escape Definition Past Strive Good

I don't live in the past. By Joe Montana Past Live

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty. By Ivan Doig Empty Stands Vacant Past

The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken? By Emily Thorne Past Tricky Thing Things Stone

The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it should be acknowledged. By Jennifer L. Armentrout Past Designed Acknowledged

The past is a kind of future that has already happened. By Bruce Sterling Happened Past Kind Future

What is past is prologue. By William Shakespeare Prologue Past

When the past is mentioned, some cry! When the past is mentioned, some ponder! When the past is mentioned, never again comes into the mind of some people. When the past is mentioned, some recall their had I known! The past is past, but its footprints never go! By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Past Mentioned Cry Ponder People

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It's your choice. By Raymond E. Feist Chain Past Terrible Weight Bound

The past lives through us. We are its legacy. By Marty Rubin Past Lives Legacy

I try not to live in the past ... but ... sometimes the past lives in me By Jamie Ford Past Live Lives

I adore the past. So much more restful than the present. So much more dependable than the future. By Anton Walbrook Past Adore Present Future Restful

Past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it. By Skyla Past Histroy Book Learn Weve

The present is the key to the past By Charles Lyell Past Present Key

The past is blind. The future is unwanting. All you need is in front of you. By Dennis T. Maglinte Blind Past Unwanting Future Front

The past cannot be changed or forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted. By Wiz Khalifa Forgotten Edited Erased Past Changed

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back. By Jonathan Ames Dead Past Back

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past By Nicholas Sparks Past

what is now in the past was once in the future'. By Anonymous Future Past