#past

These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept. ↗

— Laura Dave

#love #past #love

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

— Faraaz Kazi

#moving-on #past #love

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#past #present #illusion

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#discovery

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#karma #past #karma

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way? ↗

— Roland Barthes

#memory #past #present #time #biography

The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#memory #past #present #imagination

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime. ↗

— Alex Collier

#love #past-lives #love

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast. ↗

— Valerie Martin

#imagination

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#past #love