Bleak Quote by Anonymous

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

— Martin Amis

“Few people are capable of concerning themselves with the most recent past. Either the present holds us violently captive, or we lose ourselves in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

— Sharon Cameron

So much of the past in encapsulated in the odds and ends. Most of us discard more information about ourselves than we ever care…

— Sue Grafton

Even to of what the past you want to have forgotten, only the future is of the past to be remembered

— Melchor Lim

“If we take the time to unravel the surreptitious fragments from the past that are veiled in the muddle and jumble of our memory,…

— Erik Pevernagie

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a…

— Marcel Proust

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

— Mark Twain

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and,…

— Yukio Mishima

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

— William Robertson Nicoll