We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
Too many people dwell on the past: the thing is to get on with life.
Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.
It takes a long time to bring the past up to the present.
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.
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.
We all carry our past. But it is a case of getting on with your life and improving it, if you want to.
Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.