Quotes about paste
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Langston Hughes photo

“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Collected Poems

Connie Willis photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo
John Steinbeck photo
Rick Warren photo

“Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Bob Dylan photo

“Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
Variant: I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast

Gabriel García Márquez photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Charles Bukowski photo
Wally Lamb photo
Libba Bray photo
Meg Cabot photo
Ken Follett photo
Cassandra Clare photo
Leo Tolstoy photo
John Banville photo

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

Source: The Sea (2005, ISBN 0-330-48328-5.

Tennessee Williams photo
John Steinbeck photo
Jerry Spinelli photo
Wisława Szymborska photo
Zelda Fitzgerald photo
Milan Kundera photo
Thich Nhat Hanh photo
Robin S. Sharma photo
Terry Goodkind photo
Rick Riordan photo
Brian Friel photo
Darren Shan photo
Clive Barker photo
Mitch Albom photo
James Frey photo
Italo Calvino photo
George MacDonald photo

“Past tears are present strength.”

Source: Phantastes

D.H. Lawrence photo
Marcus Aurelius photo
George Bernard Shaw photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Brian Andreas photo
Herman Melville photo
Cressida Cowell photo

“Now think deeply.
What have you done with your life over the past year?
How do you feel inside?”

Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide

Emily Dickinson photo
T.D. Jakes photo
Shunryu Suzuki photo

“Time goes from present to past.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

Sarah Dessen photo
Scott Lynch photo

“You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.”

Interlude “Locke Stays for Dinner” section 1 (p. 121)
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

Jeffrey R. Holland photo
Cormac McCarthy photo
Holly Black photo
Alan Moore photo
Saul Williams photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Milan Kundera photo
Sarah Dessen photo
Joyce Meyer photo
Eric Berne photo
Marcus Aurelius photo
Yukio Mishima photo
Oprah Winfrey photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Jodi Picoult photo
Patricia C. Wrede photo
Robin Hobb photo
John Steinbeck photo
James Joyce photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
James Salter photo

“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”

James Salter (1925–2015) American novelist and short-story writer

Source: Burning the Days: Recollection

Richelle Mead photo
Jeanette Winterson photo

“Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough”

Gut Symmetries (1997)
Context: They were letting off fireworks down at the waterfront, the sky exploding in grenades of colour. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty - even for a moment - it is enough.

Connie Willis photo

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

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

Source: Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Ruskin Bond photo

“The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.”

Ruskin Bond (1934) British Indian writer

Source: A Town Called Dehra

Cassandra Clare photo
Ann Brashares photo

“The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.”

Jonathan Larson (1960–1996) American composer and playwright

Source: Rent: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical

Haruki Murakami photo
Harriet Beecher Stowe photo
Michel Houellebecq photo