A Quote by Jefferson Davis

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

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Aspirations Before Bury Dead Full Future Golden Hopes Lies Past Promise

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Jefferson Davis
American - Leader
June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889

All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. "Let the dead past bury its dead." The infinite future is before you.

Swami Vivekananda

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the Future is, in all things, our friend. In the Past is no hope; The Future is both hope and fruition. The Past is the text-book of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free. Those who are solely governed by the Past stand like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and forever incapable of looking before.

Herman Melville

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.

Gayle Forman

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Anna Akhmatova

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

Terry Goodkind

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.

Henry Miller

Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead.

Mother Teresa

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

Sophocles

We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.

Shonda Rhimes

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.