past Quotes

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.”

― Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men

topic:life past

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

topic:past living

“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

topic:future past

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

topic:past sorrow

“My past is everything I failed to be.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

topic:past failure

“Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past—they never do; they're too busy.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:past

“Past tears are present strength”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:strength past

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”

― George Eliot, Middlemarch

topic:past present

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:women men future past

“And the upshot of this modern attitude is really this: that men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

topic:future past

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