Past Quotes

I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.

~ Kelly Bowen

I Tried, But What I Had with You I Couldn’t Have with Anyone Else.

~ Ahmed Ali Anjum

even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze ofit used to be likes forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love.

~ Justin Cronin

Don't let your past cloud your judgement for the things that are happening in the present. Past is nothing but a distant memory. Fear of something that has happened in the past will ruin your present happiness.

~ Ashbeel Roy

Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.

~ John Connolly

According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door

~ O.henry

I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.

~ Diyar Harraz

Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunriseAnd cuts like a fine blade.

~ Juliet Marillier

When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( Corporeal prison )

~ Erik Pevernagie

The past is what it is—good and bad, it’s written and unchanging. And there’s solace to be had in that.”Tears pricked her eyes. “What do you mean?”There was a long pause. “The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can’t get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.

~ J.r. Ward

The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.

~ Suzanne Rindell

But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.

~ Joe Abercrombie

I had run to boarding school to escape myself. But I couldn't escape who I was or what I'd done, no matter how fast or far I ran. The crows were just a reminder of that. They wanted back in.My past wasn't done with me.Not yet.

~ A.r. Kahler

do not allow yourself to be someone back-up plan, just in cAse, a B-plan, a second-line or contingency plan..even love can make the future different but it will never erase their past; the fact is we all people might have someone we'd take at any moment no matter how much they hurt us in the past (Ejump,2016)

~ Ejump Schiffler

And then you’ll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who’s only yours. And you’ll realize… that this is where your life is.

~ Colm Tóibín

What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.

~ Azar Nafisi

It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.

~ Susan Sontag

There’s something in my voice that brings him back to me, overrides his buzz. ‘Gaby’—all traces of playfulness have gone—‘if anything ever happens to me, you’ll be fine. You’re strong enough to look after yourself. I hate to admit it, but you don’t need me. Never did.’ A smile. ‘But listen, nothing is going to happen today. It’s all good.’‘Jude, we’re high enough up to get a nose bleed.’‘So come with me.’I blink. ‘Fuck off.’‘I mean it. We can do this together.’ He raises his eyebrows at the girl who checked his harness. She nods.I risk looking over the side. There’s a river far beneath us. So far down we can’t hear it. My entire body goes numb.‘You’ve got about thirty seconds and then I’m going on my own.’What a choice: watch my brother jump out of this car or put aside my own fear and go with him. Share the recklessness. Why didn’t we go to Paris? We’d be arguing over where to buy cheese right now.Adrenaline begins to burn through me. ‘Screw it.’Jude breaks into a wide smile. ‘Seriously?’I glance at the yawning space beneath us. ‘Hurry up before I change my mind.

~ Paula Weston

Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.

~ Eve Chase

A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.

~ John Fowles

Her today's silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened.

~ Himanshu Chhabra

Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.

~ Steve Maraboli

To invest into a memory that will only take you down a road that cannot be traveled is futile and counter-productive. It takes us away from the here and now, and it only impedes our well-being when we give nostalgic cadence to this venture.

~ Dc Gunnersen

It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.

~ Sang-Sun Park

I couldn't change the past, but hell if I didn't want to be what Kate needed now.

~ Nicole Jacquelyn

You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.

~ Ali Rezavand Zayeri

It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.

~ Yasin Al Hafiz

There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

~ Anthony Liccione

If there isn't now, there isn't past, if there isn't past there isn't future... What if everything has happen in one day but in different periods???Can I say this??

~ Deyth Banger

Moving on is not about forgetting the past, it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.

~ Indu Muralidharan

You are done with the past, but the past isn't done with you.

~ Deyth Banger

Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted

~ Mary Stewart

There is no better Eraser for the past than a good use of the present.

~ Seun Ayilara

Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them now and today you can also say no but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026...

~ Deyth Banger

You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.

~ K. Weikel

We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments which reconstruct a wholly illusory past. That first death we witness will always be a murmur of voices down a corridor and a clock falling silent in the darkened room, the end of love is forever two spent cigarettes in a saucer and a white door closing.

~ John Banville

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

~ Cindy Crawford

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

~ Elle Sommer