I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
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.
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.
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
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.
Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
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.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
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.
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.