Past Quotes

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

~ Raymond Chandler

We shouldn't hide behind anger or anonymity when reliving the past because all that’s happened and all those who belong in our past are part of our story.

~ Melizena

Dwelling on your past won't get you anywhere you haven't already been.

~ Nel E. Sherk

No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see.

~ Robert Tew

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

~ Robert Tew

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

~ Stephen Lozada

I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.

~ Ishmael Beah

You can hide memories, suppress them, but you can’t erase the history that produced them

~ Haruki Murakami

There's no future in stories...Stories are things of the past, things for museums.

~ David Mitchell

Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.

~ Shelley Noble

It is always perilous to suppose that the past is over and done with or that it can ever safely be disconnected from the pressing concerns of the present.

~ Christopher Kelly

Living your life through negative feelings and memories is doing yourself a dishonour.If you want to change you need to be willing to leave your past wounds behind you. -If you wish to remain stuck in your attachment to past pains then dare to ask yourself exactly why you feel the need to define yourself by your past traumas or tragedies.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.

~ Miya Yamanouchi

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you.

~ Robert Tew

There were days when I still put on make up in case you’d come back,but I wear the same clothes and shower in the rainand eat when I can and sleep when I can,which is rare and not often,so if you’d see me nowon these streetswhere I once imagined walking with youyou’d have a hard time recognising me.I takes a lot to run away.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

~ Rachel Joyce

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

~ Dean Koontz

It is not our memories but the person we have become because of those experiences that we should treasure. This is the lesson these keepsakes teach us when we sort them. The space in which we live should be for the person we are becoming now, not for the person we were in the past.

~ Marie Kondō

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

~ Borgohain J.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Nearly two years of dates. Still no question. Her mother and father want to set a proper date. Still no question. Her friends keep asking, when, Natasha? When? But she still hasn’t been asked The Question. It’s enjoyable to be the one with all the secrets, but in her honest mind – the hidden part that’s always sleeping – the secrets he keeps about when and if give her a feeling inside she’s never really understood completely – a sensation she had as a child when she got to the end of a fairytale where never-ending love and happiness were all but expected and wondered whether there might be…. one last page.

~ Carla H. Krueger

He remembers how someone – he forgets who – once said in a sarcastic tone, “Isn’t she just Little Miss Sweetness and Light?” – and it was a statement that put him off proposing. It made him seriously reassess his options. He didn’t want to be with someone others saw as overly-moral because he has flaws, he has weaknesses. How would his mistakes compare to her virtuousness? She used to dislike the competitiveness at work, the way she claimed she could never really make friends with anyone because everything was always so fake and cut-throat and he used to berate her for it, used to tell her to accept it, to realise the truth about life and relationships – but she wouldn’t take it. She was always thinking too hard about everything, always questioning her motives. Surely, if he’d married her, she’d have started questioning his.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

~ Carla H. Krueger

If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.

~ T.f. Hodge

Take your past off life support.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

A person who can not deal with the past of others, can not deal with yours.

~ Davi Oliveira

This is when I became myself. The girl before this time is a shadow, like a soul who is practicing how not to become. She is the background, the hole in the fabric from which the real shape is cut.

~ Gabriel Weston

Eventually we all must return home, Praetor. We must embrace our past, no matter how bitter and dark. — Orion

~ Rick Riordan

How long the path may be depends for any man on where he stands today and his speed of travel. These are his past and present choosing, but the beginning of the way is here and now, and karma and rebirth are the means of treading it.

~ Christmas Humphreys

No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.

~ Mande Chambers

Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars.

~ Jean Nshimiyimana

It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.

~ Jessica Sorensen

Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita

~ Nilesh Sakpal

I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.

~ Adib Khan

Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.

~ Adib Khan

Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.

~ Hafiz

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

~ Margaret Atwood

you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do

~ Margaret Atwood

Forget your past,Use your pain;Accept that pain,And Achieve the gain.

~ Nitesh Nishad

You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

~ Kemi Sogunle