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“Because I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present".”

Source: The Alchemist

“You left me."
Not realizing until I've said my final good-bye and closed the door behind me, that he's not referring to the past.
He's prophesying our future.”

Alyson Nöel book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Past, Future

“In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

Source: White Teeth

Truth, Past

“Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define us.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Variant: Our past may shape us, but it doesn't define who we become.
Source: Night Star

Past

“The warlock's gaze, on the flames, was remote and distant, as if he were looking back into the past. Simon couldn't help but remember what Magnus had said to him once, about living forever:
Someday you and I will be the only two left.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Distant, Past, Help

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Past

“People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

People, Past, Future

“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.”

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American author

Past, Future

“Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Change, Past, Dead

“Time folds you in its arms and gives you one last kiss, and then it flattens you out and folds you up and tucks you away until it's time for you to become someone else's past time, and then time folds again.”

Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer

Source: The Tent

Kiss, Time, Past

“She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Past

“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.”

J. Michael Straczynski (1954) American writer and television producer

Time, Past, Future

“Don’t let the past ruin your future. (Acheron)
Meaning what, oh great Yoda? (Kyrian)
You take care of the kid. I’ll take care of your patrol tonight. I could use the target practice. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Past, Future

“Magnus held up a warning finger. "Don't overstep yourself, biscuit," he said, and moved past them, disappearing into the crowd around the portal.
"Biscuit?" said Simon.
"Believe it or not, he's called me that before," Clary said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Past

“Shall we never never get rid of this Past?… It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne book The House of the Seven Gables

Source: The House of the Seven Gables

Past, Dead

“You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel”

Thomas E. Sniegoski (1962) writer

Source: Aerie and Reckoning

Pain, Light, Past

“Perhaps that’s why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Past

“I may be fat and ugly, but I'm not stupid. If anyone had ever gotten past my looks, they might've noticed I have a brain.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Stupidity, Past

“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

Hyperion http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5436, Bk. IV, Ch. 8 (1839).

Fear, Past, Future, Heart

“When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable”

Martin Amis book Other People

Source: Other People

Past

“Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Time, Past

“You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.”

Denis Waitley (1933) American writer

Learning, Success, Past

“Clarke's Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”

Arthur C. Clarke (1917–2008) British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host

"Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination" in Profiles of the Future (1962)
On Clarke's Laws

Law, Way, Past

“While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek (1946), Ch. 6

Past, Happiness

“The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Waiting, Past, Future

“Hamish's right arm was around Angus's waist as the two of them tangoed past.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Past

“We are not just visitors on this planet, it belongs to us just as we belong to her, its past is ours, so is its future.”

Amin Maalouf book The First Century after Beatrice

Source: Le premier siècle après Béatrice

Past, Future

“I’ve lived a long time,” Magnus said. “So many years, and no, it doesn’t feel like enough. I won’t lie and say it does. I want to live on—partly because of you, Alec. I have never wanted to live so much as I have these past few months, with you.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Lie, Feeling, Time, Past

“If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Understanding, Past, Future

“You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Past, Future

“We laughed ourselves silly, taking back our shared past, gently, piece by piece.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Past

“The past is never where you think you left it.”

Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

Thinking, Past

“I decided it was well past time to take him home and place him in bosom of his family. If you had rather I put him in an orphanage, I fully understand.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Midnight Heir

Family, Home, Understanding, Time

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Life, Pain, Past

“But… what about us? What about the past?" she asks blankly.
"The past isn't real. it's just a dream," I say. "Don't mention the past.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

Dreams, Past

“It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Moving On, Learning, Past

“Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Ice Palace

Source: The Ice Palace

Love, World, Way, Change

“Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.”

Ernest Cline book Ready Player One

Source: Ready Player One

Freedom, Light, Past

“… can I tell you something…? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.”

Brad Meltzer book The Inner Circle

Source: The Inner Circle

Love, Thinking, Past, Future

“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

Source: Poems of Akhmatova

Past, Future, Dead

“I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

Source: Change of Heart

Love, Past

“The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The new order is
Rapidly fadin'.
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin'.”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

Time, Past

“Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

Deep, Sad, Past, Future

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

Failure, Learning, Past, Future

“Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!"
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Past, Housing

“Father nevver once looked at any woman the way he looked at Mother, with joy and thanksgiving, as if she was a living wish, granted past all hope.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Hope, Way, Past, Joy

“Create your future from your future, not your past.”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Past, Future

“Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Forgiveness, Past, Future

“In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred, It is a paryer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

Source: The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows

Love, Beauty, Freedom, Past

“The past could be jettisoned… but seeds got carried.”

Joan Didion Where I Was From

Source: Where I Was From

Past

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

Edith Wharton (1862–1937) American novelist, short story writer, designer

"A First Word" <br class="br"> A Backward Glance http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200271.txt (1934)

Way, Change, Past, Happiness

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

Source: The Inheritance of Loss

Change, Past

“Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.”

Nick Flynn book Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Source: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Alcohol, Past

“The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Way, Change, Past

“For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.”

Michael Ondaatje (1943) Canadian writer

Source: Handwriting

Dreams, Past

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Secret, Learning, Past, Country

“You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

Past

“You've faced horrors in these past weeks… I don't know which is worse. The terror you feel the first time you witness such things, or the numbness that comes after it starts to become ordinary.”

Tasha Alexander (1969) American writer

Source: A Fatal Waltz

Feeling, Time, Past

“I stood my ground. "You evil scientist are all the same--evil. Count me out."

Fang and I brushed past Mr. God and walked quickly but smoothly to the exit. It was barely noon, and I'd already made a huge enemy.

Dang, I'm good.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

God, Evil, Past

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

Life, Past

“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Variant: Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.
Source: Invisible Monsters

Attitude, Past

“You are not your past.”

Mitch Albom book Have a Little Faith

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

Past

“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”

Gregory Maguire book A Lion Among Men

Source: A Lion Among Men

Way, Memory, Past, Future

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

May Sarton (1912–1995) American poet, novelist, and memoirist

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

Pain, Food, Past, Night

“Remember, the past need not become our future as well.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Past, Future

“I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past."

"Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Past

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you’re capable of far more than you imagined. You live in this vast body called the Universe, which contains all the solutions and all the problems. Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. The Universe goes through many mutations and carries the past with it. We call each of those mutations a ‘life,’ but just as the cells in your body change and yet you remain the same, so time does not pass, it merely changes.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Aleph (2011)

Life, Soul, Imagination, Problem

“Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.”

Anna Quindlen book Black and Blue

Source: Black and Blue

Children, Past

“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

Imagination, Nature, Reality, Past

“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Learning, Change, Past

“The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.”

John Berger (1926–2017) British painter, writer and art critic

Change, Past

“I do not laugh; I do not cry;
I'm sweating out the will to die.

My past is sliding down the drain;
I soon will be myself again.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Past, Cry

“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Past, Falseness

“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Truth, Soul, Past, Dead

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

China Miéville book The Scar

Source: The Scar

Memory, Past

“Like walking through a door. Our relationship immediately attained a sepia tone: the past.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

Past

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Away

Missing You, Past

“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.”

Ted Chiang The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Source: The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate

Forgiveness, Past

“The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.”

Raymond E. Feist book Shards of a Broken Crown

Source: Shards of a Broken Crown

Past

“When they kissed she immediately felt his tongue, tensed and strong, pushing past her teeth, like some bully shouldering his way into a room. Entering her.”

Ian McEwan book On Chesil Beach

Source: On Chesil Beach

Way, Kiss, Strong, Past

“A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay:

Grown-up

Was it for this I uttered prayers,
And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs,
That now, domestic as a plate,
I should retire at half-past eight?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: The Selected Poetry

Past

“I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Life, Past, Future, Happiness

“Now that the real and the imagined had collided, he wondered if she, like he, longed for the past, for the normal. He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Imagination, Silence, Past

“It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita”

Laura Esquivel book Like Water for Chocolate

Source: Like Water for Chocolate

Past

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

Paulo Coelho book The Zahir

Source: The Zahir

Life, Past

“When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

God, Imagination, Past

“I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ‘saviorʹ would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Moms, Past, Parting

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

Margot Bickel (1958) German poet

Peace, Silence, Past

“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”

Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer

Hope, Change, Time, Past

“I will fight any battle for you, crush any adversity. Because you are mine, beautiful girl. I love you so madly that the past before you feels sane…”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Love, Beauty, Feeling, Girl

“There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.”

Brad Meltzer book The Book of Lies

Source: The Book of Lies

Love, Life, Past, Future

“Your past is my Future.”

Dean Koontz book Lightning

Lightning

Past, Future

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

Mohsin Hamid Moth Smoke

Source: Moth Smoke

Past, Future

“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.”

Andrew Solomon book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Effort, Time, Past

“The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Travis Parker, Chapter 22, p. 258-259
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

Life, Past, Future

“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: Last Chance Saloon

Past, Personality

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thinking, Past

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

Jack London Martin Eden

Source: Martin Eden

Past, Future

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Past, Future

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”

Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author

Source: Unexpected Blessings

Past, Future, Help

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