Viktor E. Frankl Quotes

On the mountains of memory by the world's wellsprings, in all man's eyes, where the light of life of him is on all past things, death only dies.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

Books are not life, only its ashes.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

We all have appointments with the past.

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply. You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a part of what you are - that you can't ignore it. But I don't look at scrapbooks. I could show you some, but I'd have to climb ladders, and I can't climb

But it's our curse and our blessing to remember the past and to know there's a future. —Charlie

Everyone must learn from the past.

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

The Warrior remembers the past.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

All our tastes are but reminiscences.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.