past Quotes

Forgotten is forgiven.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

I like today and perhaps a little future still, but the past is really something I'm not interested in. So, as far as I'm concerned, I like only the past of things and people I don't know. When I know, I don't care because I knew how it was.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.