Past Quotes

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

~ Wilfred James Dolor

Sometimes there are things in our lives that aren’t meant to stay. Sometimes the changes we don’t want are the changes we need to grow. - W.J. Dlor

~ Wilfred James Dolor

There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.

~ Moira Young

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all the time.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as day-dreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Don’t be afraid of change. Change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

~ Wilfred James Dolor

As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn't experienced ten years of living.

~ Liane Moriarty

I miss my old life

~ Richard C. Morais

The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

~ Edward Bellamy

If using 'was' could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then i wanna say, I was sorry, for everything...

~ Allwyn Jose

Sometimes we think the hardest part of life is letting go, but what we fail to realize is that learning to start over makes it hard for us to let go. - W.J. Dolor

~ Wilfred James Dolor

Your brain activates a magnificent system to store memories as reference points for you to learn from... not to create a past for you to be stuck in.

~ Steve Maraboli

If using was could be deemed gramatically, or atleast emotionally correct, in the sense that it could relate to something that you actually couldn't do in the past, but want to do right now, then I wanna say, I was sorry, for everything..

~ Allwyn Jose

MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

~ Hillary Depiano

Some things belong to the past.

~ Ronald Frame

There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the range of hearing. The past shades into present always and everywhere, but only rarely do we acknowledge the process; only rarely does some trigger force us to recognize ourselves as citizens of that frontier.

~ Mark Slouka

I've never looked forward before. I've always looked back. I think about the past way too much and I think about what I should have done and everything I did wrong and I've never once looked forward in my life.

~ Colleen Hoover

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

~ Lisa Gardner

Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?

~ Alexandra Duncan

Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.

~ J.l. Berg

If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse

~ Josh Stern

In the days when wishing was having, I got what I wished and then I wish I hadn't.

~ Emma Donoghue

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

~ J.d. Stroube

For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

~ Miguel Ruiz

If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments, you are struck every time by the singularity of the events in which you took part, the unique individuality of the characters whom you met. This singularity is like the dominant note of every moment of existence; in each moment of life, the life principle itself is unique. The artist therefore tries to grasp that principle and make it incarnate, new each time; and each time he hopes, though in vain, to achieve an exhaustive image of the Truth of human existence. The quality of beauty is in the truth of life.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events. By the use of this instrument it gives us information transcending our experience, it enables us to infer things that we have not seen from things that we have seen; and the evidence for the truth of that information depends on our supposing that the uniformity holds good beyond our experience.

~ William Kingdon Clifford

Let's burn our past down and make something better from its ashes.

~ Kirk Diedrich

Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future...

~ Shelly Thacker

I don't want that boy to fall over for just a bird that forgot that her wings are broken.

~ Ade Santi

Look, you can't change your past, Ditty, but you've still got your future.

~ Robyn Bavati

Never would I have a more memorable time than the month I spent in the mountains, though I wonder, when I say this, if it appears so only because it is our nature to make a heaven out of places to which we can never return.

~ Yiyun Li

The only thing that makes the present palatable is the fact that the past was, at times, torture.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It's a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past, should exist only in memories glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photography forces us to see people before their future weighed down on them. Before they knew their endings.

~ Kate Morton

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

~ Françoise Sagan

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past.

~ Tanya R. Simon

That's when it hit me. I had to go through a lot of bad relationships first, but I'd finally found him. My very own Prince Charming. Turns out they do exist.Touché, Cinderella. Touché.

~ Cindi Madsen

When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

~ Steve Maraboli

Dont look back , there is a darkness of your past

~ Muhammad Saqib

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.

~ Raymond Chandler