Bricks Quote by Gordon Wright

“In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured. To be sure, people tend to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know…not all is as lost as…

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations; before you lies the future-a future full of golden promise.

— Jefferson Davis

Never look back. The past is a wilderness of horrors.

— Anonymous

For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.

— Iain Pears

To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence…

— Anonymous

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the…

— Stephen Baxter

“History was easy: the past with all loss burned out of it, all sorrow worn out of it—all that was merely personal comfortably removed”

— Alice McDermott

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The past ... is a dim avenue down which we may walk and find the diverging paths of terror and beauty and passion.

— Martha Ostenso

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

— Freya Stark

“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