Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Forget the past.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
We can't let the past be forgotten.