The Past Quotes

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Man cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
Friedrich Nietzsche

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
Pliny the Elder

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. Eliot

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.
Charlie Munger

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
Virginia Woolf

The past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Marilyn Ferguson