Past Quotes

I wish I was what I have beenAnd what I was could beAs when I roved in shadows greenAnd loved my willow treeTo gaze upon the starry skyAnd higher fancies buildAnd make in solitary joyLoves temple in the field

~ John Clare

Don't allow the faults you've made in the past define the person you are today.

~ Mya Waechtler

Ephraim found a stack of postcards tied together with a faded green ribbon. He shuffled through them and found they were from every World's Fair from 1915 in San Francisco to 1939 in New York. None of the postcards hed been written on or mailed.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

This moment has nothing to do with the last one unless you choose the past to continue.

~ Alan Cohen

Ephraim lifted the top of the trunk. Neatly stacked were mementoes from what seemed like hundreds of journeys. Right on top was an etching of the Eiffel tower next to an African mask that looked at him with surprised eyes. He reached in a little deeper and unearthed a small teapot decorated with blue drawings just like the kind his grandmother collected and kept in a locked china cabinet.

~ Megan Frazer Blakemore

i loved you once but not sure the second will get me back. We know our mistakes and know our past, but we don't know which to blame. these are the last words i will say before we continue our life. Find another lover before you try to love me back.

~ Anthony Castillo

Just remember, please, most of that stuff is in the past. It isn't the story I want to tell. At all.You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story.Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

~ Patrick Ness

But this, all this, isn't the story I'm trying to tell. This is all past. This is the part of your life where it gets taken over by other people's stories and there's nothing you can do about it except hold on tight and hope you're still alive at the end to take up your own story again. So that's what we did. Me, Mel, and Meredith all moved on, and we're the stories we're living now.Aren't we?

~ Patrick Ness

We're the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you, he's falling for your past as much as he's falling for your present.

~ Megan Squires

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

~ Stephen King

I still have people from my past who treat me wrong, i thank them for making me strong.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.

~ Roxane Gay

At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock.

~ Stephen King

They were all gone now, broken or taken by people who had no idea what such items represented. Let them go. She held the past in her heart, with no need of physical items to tie it down.

~ Robin Hobb

I live on in the sweetness of old dayswith strangers who build new dwellingson blue hills up to the edge of the sky,I talk softly with the captured treesand comfort them sometimes.How slowly time consumes the core of things,and soundlessly treads fate’s heavy heel.

~ Edith Södergran

Writers don't forget the past, they turn it into raw material.

~ Joyce Rachelle

You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.

~ Preeti Shenoy

You can't have one without the other,you can't be something you don't believe,you can't live if you linger in tomorrow,you can't be in the past and expect to see me,but you can only love when you're in the right here, right now.

~ Jess Chief Brynjulson

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

~ Paul S Kemp

You are hatching from the past.

~ Simon Van Booy

That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.

~ Ruth Reichl

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

When this, our rose, is faded,And these, our days, are done,In lands profoundly shadedFrom tempest and from sun:Ah, once more come together,Shall we forgive the past,And safe from worldly weatherPossess our souls at last?

~ Ernest Dowson

The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining,heavy even when empty.

~ Robyn Sarah

In days long past, Jarod said he’d write a sentence about my love, translated in Russian, and that sentence, like my love, is clearly not for sale, unlike his virginity, or this book, which I’m both offering at ten times the market value, so hurry up and buy now, before it goes down.

~ Will Advise

There is no unstoppable force but time, no impenetrable object except that which separates us from the past.

~ James Rozoff

What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul...

~ Gayathri Jayakumar

You were my dock. I am just a mere ship that has drifted farther and farther into the vast water. Many docks are in range, but I have yet to anchor and tie my rope.

~ A.m.l

Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

~ Patrick Modiano

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

~ Daniel Keyes

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.

~ Glen Cook

In love one cannot be mediocre, nor can one sustain love without work. The choices in the past were not enough, and it was necessary to choose again.

~ Simone Troisi

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.But the cure works differently for everybody; and it does not work perfectly for all.

~ Lauren Oliver

I’ve been in the Wilds for a month and a half now, and in that time I’ve almost forgotten about the fences. It’s amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

~ Lauren Oliver

When people complain me that, they suffer a lot my answer will be the same forget your past, live with present and don't wait for your future.

~ Piyush Paudyal

If you are happy with your past, you visit it often; and strangely, if you are unhappy with your past, you visit it often too!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Nothing from the past can still exist unless we drag it into the present moment through our minds. Holding onto past pain creates present pain. Holding onto old fears creates new fears. Holding onto former injuries caused by others is an act of current self-injury. What’s done is gone. The only way it can live within us again is through our willingness to revive it in this moment.

~ Emily Maroutian