past Quotes

“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

topic:future past present

“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”

― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title”

― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

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“Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?”

― William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

topic:life past

“what necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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“The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:future man past mind imagination

“The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

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“He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there’s the future. Sheer vertigo.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

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“The one charm of the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:women past

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