Past

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

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

"What's past is prologue."

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

"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."

"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."

"The eternal landscape of the past."

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

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

"Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower."

"For old, unhappy, far-off things, And battles long ago."

"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."