You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
Ann BrasharesTags: life inspirational past inspiration change hope
One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.
Karen FowlerTags: past fiction memories remembering novella
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
Frederick BuechnerTags: past
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
Aimee BenderIf I could somehow know the future,
then now should not be like this time.
Tags: life past future present today time-travel concept
Laine slowly rolled out of bed. The queen size was one of the few new things in the house. But now, even the new bed felt tainted. It was an inner-spring monument to lies, a petri dish of mendacity she had shared with her faithless husband, and shared now with creeping dreams that flew from the light but left harsh scratches and diseased black feathers. Laine promised herself that, as soon as, she could, she would rid herself of this house, this bed, her clothes, her jewelry - everything but the flesh she lived in. She would scrub herself clean and flee to start a new life whose first and only commandment would be: Never let thyself be lied to again.
Stephen M. IrwinTags: past loss emotions betrayal longing adultery running-away unclean overwhelmed material-possessions escaping
You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off.
Chuck PalahniukTags: past
...всё мертвое, всё прошлое, всё, что больше не встретится в жизни нашей, - не возбуждает злости.
Егор Иваныч Молотов
- Н.Г. Помяловский "Мещанское счастье
Tags: past feelings чувства прошлое
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.
Siri HustvedtTags: past present memory brain image
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey of my story.’ (David Copperfield)
“But all that night he lay awake because the phantoms of those days were not gone. Like the tiny, terrible holes in the prophylactics, the phantoms of those days were not easy to detect—and their meaning was unknown—but they were there.
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