Past Quotes, Sayings about past

You have to know the past to understand the present.
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson.

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you – if you don’t repeat it.
Author: Pearl Bailey.

Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.

The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
Author: Allan Johnson.

I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham.

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
Author: John Cage.

If you are enthusiastic toward today and excited about tomorrow. It’s impossible to live in the past!
Author: Sean P. O’Dea.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author: George Santayana.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Author: Oscar Wilde.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Author: Herb Caen.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Author: Golda Meir.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Author: Pliny the Elder.

The past is not a package one can lay away.
Author: Emily Dickinson.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Author: Virginia Woolf.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Author: Oscar Wilde.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
Author: André Maurois.

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Author: Kenneth Auchincloss.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Author: Isabelle Eberhardt.

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