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  • Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

    Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997
  • 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.

    Sonnet 30
  • I read "Remembrance of Things Past" in the original French. I never start the day without reading me some [Marcel] Proust.

    Source: www.bostonglobe.com
  • 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.

    Past   Men   Anticipation  
    Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.110, Commodius Vicus
  • When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

    "Mark Twain's Own Autobiography," North American Review, 1 Mar. 1907
  • Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

  • There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

    Michael Connelly (2008). “The Brass Verdict”
  • It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

    Love   Inspiration   Past  
    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics
  • I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

    Past   Lasts   Saws  
    Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.117, eBookIt.com
  • The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

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

  • The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being at all; the Future but a fiction of the mind.

    Memories   Future   Past  
    Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.15, Hackett Publishing
  • There is no gratitude for things past. Gratitude is always for what you're going to do for people in the future.

    Gratitude   Past   People  
  • The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

    Sweet   Sunset   Past  
  • But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

    Life   Father   Grateful  
  • My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

    Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

    Past   Thinking   World  
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.116
  • True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

    Eye   Past   Looks  
  • 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?

  • When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

    Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Things past redress are now with me past care

    'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171
  • Remembrance of things past.

    Sonnet 30
  • One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

    Dark   Past   People  
    "Gaiman & Pratchett, Together Again... Almost". Locus Interview, www.locusmag.com. March 1991.
  • An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past

    Past   Destiny   Mirrors  
  • Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

    Past   Space   Creation  
  • By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

    Past   Men   Expectations  
    Thomas Hobbes (2005). “Leviathan, Parts I and II”, p.23, Broadview Press
  • What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

    Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.87, Univ of California Press
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