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William Shakespeare Quotes about Past

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Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

William Shakespeare
Life, Time, Past
'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

William Shakespeare
Weed, Past, Heaven
William Shakespeare (2013). “Making Sense of Hamlet! a Students Guide to Shakespeare's Play (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

What is past is prologue.

William Shakespeare
Time, Past, History
'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.

William Shakespeare
Dream, Past, Men
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [211]

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

William Shakespeare
Time, Maturity, Past

We have seen better days.

William Shakespeare
Time, Memorable, Past
'Timon Of Athens' act 4, sc. 2, l. 27

The past is prologue.

William Shakespeare
Past, Prologue

Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated

William Shakespeare
Past, Reason, Enjoy
William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

William Shakespeare
Destiny, Past, Tempest
William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.

William Shakespeare
Time, Past, Monsters
'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 145

Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.

William Shakespeare
Past, May, Fairness
William Shakespeare (2009). “Three Classical Tragedies”, p.476, Bantam Classics

Remembrance of things past.

William Shakespeare
Past, Remembrance, Nostalgia
Sonnet 30

O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Pain, Past
William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.242, Cengage Learning EMEA

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

William Shakespeare
Past, Gone, Way
1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Past, Welcome
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.233

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

William Shakespeare
Adversity, Past, Best Things
William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.425

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.

William Shakespeare
Grief, Past, Late
1603-4 Duke to Brabanzio. Othello, act1, sc.3, l.201-4.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

William Shakespeare
Time, Past, Ruins
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.595

For you and I are past our dancing days.

William Shakespeare
Love, Past, Dancing
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Sunset, Past

Things past redress are now with me past care

William Shakespeare
Acceptance, Caring, Past
'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 171

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Past, Execution
William Shakespeare, John Fletcher (2000). “King Henry VIII: Third Series”, p.384, Cengage Learning EMEA

Past all shame, so past all truth.

William Shakespeare
Past, Shame, Falsehood

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

William Shakespeare
Prayer, Past, Comfort
William Shakespeare (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.581

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

William Shakespeare
Sweet, Past, Remembrance
Sonnet 30

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