Past Quotes

“Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.”

“The past is not a foreign land. It is a living presence.”

“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.”

“Even God cannot change the past.”

“The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every second of the present.”

“A ghost never dies, it remains always to come and to come-back.”

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

“The past and the present have parted.”

“The past is not a foreign country, but the landscape of our lives.”

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not looking back.”

“I was a 'D' student. I was a class clown. I was a screw-up.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I don't look back.”

“No se puede vivir del recuerdo.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not a sentimental person. I'm not a person who is particularly given to looking back.”

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

“I don't think you can regret things. I did them at the time, and I did them for what I thought was the best reason.”

“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”