Past Quotes

"Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?" ~ Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy "What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?" ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past's mistakes and the future's fears. ~ The Big Time by Fritz Leiber Sometimes I wonder if our memories are as good as we think they are and if the whole past wasn't once entirely different from anything we remember, and we've forgotten that we forgot. ~ The Big Time by Fritz Leiber History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again. ~ A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin Women live much more in the past than we do, he thought. They attach themselves to places. ~ Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game. ~ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ~ Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde