Past is past... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

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.

You can’t clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!

Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?

I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n'y projetait déjà une histoire.

While they talked they remembered the years of their youth, and each thought of the other as he had been at another time.

Be not anxious;yesterday is your experience, today is your experiment and tomorrow is your expectation. Maximize the time!

My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.

In the past, only some of the males, but all of the females, were able to procreate. Equality is more natural for females.

Not watching the path where his legs took him, he walked on because he knew he had to walk ahead, leaving his past behind.

Even though I knew, deep down, what she was trying to do, I couldn’t hate her. Even when she hurt me, I forgave her.

There is no future in the past and there is no real hope in the future, only regrets, worries, plans and aim for the best.