The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
The past is where its supposed to be.
The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
The past is what the past is.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
I'd rather look to the future than to the past.
I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.