It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present…

“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.”

— Thomas Suddendorf

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future…

— Julia Ward Howe

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

— Dante Alighieri

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

— Sydney Banks

“At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.”

— Aaron Lauritsen

“WHEN any extraordinary events, unexpected anxieties or catastrophes, intrude themselves suddenly into a life up to that period peaceful and happy, these unexpected emotions…

— Victor Hugo

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

— Publilius Syrus

“Yes, yes, it ended in my corrupting them all! How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to…

— Gautama Buddha

I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia…

— Anonymous

The memory of my past and the story of my future.

— Kristen_Leanne

I discovered that Thailand was one of those countries, like Sri Lanka and India, where memory of past lives used to be commonplace. Go…

— John Burdett

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“But the memory of past sorrow--is it not present joy?”

— Edgar Allan Poe