139 Best Past Quotes

The past is a memory, the future is a dream. All we have is the present. – Hasegawa Taizou

I hate this town. It’s too filled with memories I’d rather forget. – Tomoya Okazaki

I will never forget a single moment I spent with you. – Tomoya Okazaki

We cling to memories as if they define us. But what are we without them? – Major Motoko Kusanagi

You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. – Ashitaka

I'll make you remember who you really are. – Rumi

You're just a ghost from my past. – Mima Kirigoe

I want to go back... to that time of happiness. – Kaguya

Dreams and memories... they're almost the same thing.

The key... it's nothing important, really. It's just a memento. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

That key is the key to the most important thing in the world. – The Painter

The only thing that connected us was that key. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

The sound of that latch... it was the sound of my fate closing. – Chiyoko Fujiwara

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be. – Soothsayer

You gotta let go of that stuff from the past, because it just doesn't matter! – Po

I have cause. It is you. – Tai Lung

It's okay, you can let it go. – Iduna

I just want everything to be like it was. – Hilda

You always knew. I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now. – Edna Mode

I knew the house would be empty. I knew you'd be here. I knew it... I knew it... – Bob Parr

History is bunk. – Henry Ford

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

The past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

The fear of the past had been so great that she had not dared to look it in the face.

He was still too young to know that the memory of the heart eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore.

How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?

Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding.

Make a trail out of the garden...to show them the way.

Where I was before I came here, that place is real. It's never going away. Even if the whole farm—every tree and grass blade of it dies. The picture is still there and what's more, if you go there—you who never was there—if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there for you, waiting for you.

It's gonna hurt, now, anything coming back to life hurts.

All of it is now, it is always now.

If you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it, weep for it!

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and of the lions on the beach. – Narrator

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

Do you know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. You know why? It’s got a 10-second memory. – Ted Lasso

I was actually fired from my last job. But, uh, to be fair, I was trying to play football with a grapefruit. So, you know, I had it coming. – Ted Lasso

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

That is my old student! I have not seen that fire since... well, since he was my student.

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. – Alice

I'm training to be a cage fighter. – Uncle Rico

How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains? – Uncle Rico

Back in '82, I used to be able to throw a pigskin a quarter mile. – Uncle Rico

It wasn't over for me. I never forgot you. I kept your letters. I read them all the time. – Allie

You didn't think you were the only one she wrote, did you? – Mr. Nobody

You sold me queer giraffes! – Proximo

Atlas Corrigan was my first lesson in love, and Ryle Kincaid was my last.

Maybe you were adopted. – Lorraine Baines

Silence, Earthling! My name is Darth Vader. I am an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan! – Loraine's Brother