"That awful independent on to-morrow! Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past; Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as they fly."

"Oh seize the instant time; you never will With waters once passed by impel the mill."

"The eternal landscape of the past."

"Many a woman has a past; but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

"The past Hours weak and gray With the spoil which their toil Raked together From the conquest but One could foil."

"What's past is prologue."

"I need not ask thee if that hand, now calmed, Has any Roman soldier mauled and knuckled, For thou wert dead, and buried and embalmed, Ere Romulus and Remus had been suckled: Antiquity appears to have begun Long after that primeval race was run."

"O there are Voices of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that can bear me back to Times Which cannot come again; Yet God forbid that I should lose The echoes that remain!"

"Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine, For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow againe."

"In tanta inconstantia turbaque rerum nihil nisi quod preteriit certum est."

"Oh, had I but Aladdin's lamp Tho' only for a day, I'd try to find a link to bind The joys that pass away."

"There’s a resistance to the idea that things can be learned from the past, but the past is a kind of closet full of human beings who have lots to say; the door should be opened once in a while."

"Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth."

"Enjoy the spring of love and youth, To some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest."

"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."

"Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee."

"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

"We remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past."

"Oh le bon temps où étions si malheureux."

"Ils sont passés ces jours de fête."

"Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passé."

"O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deeds sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight."

"The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past."

"Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.""

"O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-Beens, These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays."

"Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor."

"But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?"

"No traces left of all the busy scene, But that remembrances says: The things have been."

"Thou unrelenting past."

"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."

"The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."

"The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past."

"The past cannot survive in your presence [in the now]. p. 61"

"Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence. p. 42"

"Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. p. 141"

"The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. p. 36"

"The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is. p. 36"

"Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace - and you do so now. p. 36"

"Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!"

"The age of chivalry is gone."

"The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness."

"The heart opens itself to the hope that the misfortunes of the past will be replaced by fruitful dialogue."

"I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present."

"Is it so bad to pause the future to appreciate the past? [...] Is it so bad to shut the door and just accept we can't go back?"

"He who keeps fleeing, flees from his own past."