Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Young fighters dream of the future. Old fighters seek to recapture the past.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

… we should not indulge in looking backwards with envy to the past, but to keep our eyes ahead of us with hope for the future.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

A kiss is often about the future and the past. A lost dream, about the discretion of the idealism.

Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

Remember the past - and await the future.

Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.