Quotes on Things Past

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.