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Past Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “In losing his past, he lost everything.”

Ivan Turgenev

Memory, Loss, Past, Identity, Emptiness

2. “The past was a dream wasn’t it? And who ever remembers dreams?”

Ivan Turgenev

Past, Memory, Illusion, Dreams, Time

3. “Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.”

Camille Paglia

Education, Past, Future, Society, Knowledge

4. “I used to do drugs. I still do drugs. But I used to, too.”

Mitch Hedberg

Drugs, Past, Addiction, Change, Humor

5. “When you catch-up with friends after a really long time, you are basically looking at yourself in the past.”

Ankur Warikoo

Friends, Time, Reflection, Past, Connection

6. “We cannot change the history of the past.”

Jimmy Carter

History, Change, Past, Acceptance, Reality

7. “We’ve uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.”

Jimmy Carter

History, Family, Ancestry, Humor, Past

8. “Whatever they say about going back to the beginning, they’ll be interested in the car.”

V.S. Naipaul

Beginning, Interest, Past, Observation, Modernity

9. “The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.”

V.S. Naipaul

Past, Time, Memory, Closure, Reflection

10. “What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.”

V.S. Naipaul

Past, Reflection, Acceptance, Perspective, Time

11. “Let’s not go into the past.”

Ramakrishna

Past, Present, Focus, Awareness, Letting Go

12. “When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.”

Jack Ma

Struggle, Growth, Success, Experience, Past

13. “I will practice coming back to the present moment, not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Presence, Mindfulness, Past, Future, Awareness

14. “Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Worry, Past, Future, Awareness, Present

15. “Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by – or rather, things that are.”

Plutarch

Memory, Time, Past, Mind, Recollection

16. “My old life – no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.”

Scott Adams

Past, Change, Life, Growth, Acceptance

17. “I ache in the places where I used to play...”

Leonard Cohen

Nostalgia, Aging, Pain, Past, Reflection

18. “Don’t dwell on what has passed away or what is yet to be.”

Leonard Cohen

Past, Future, Present, Letting Go, Acceptance

19. “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

Leonard Cohen

Past, Change, Renewal, Struggle, Burden

20. “I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face –.”

Leonard Cohen

Past, Reflection, Memory, Nostalgia, Experience

21. “I’m not a very nostalgic person. I don’t really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.”

Leonard Cohen

Nostalgia, Past, Reflection, Regret, Perspective

22. “The art of longing’s over, and it’s never coming back.”

Leonard Cohen

Longing, Art, Over, Never, Past

23. “Some say that no one ever leaves Montreal, for that city, like Canada itself, is designed to preserve the past, a past that happened somewhere else.”

Leonard Cohen

Montreal, Canada, Past, City, Nostalgia