“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
— Cormac McCarthy“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
— Haruki Murakami“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”
— John Banville“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
— Edgar Allan Poe“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
— Steve Maraboli“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
— Sara Shepard“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
— Christina Westover“Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.”
— Nicholas Sparks“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”
— Jennifer Elisabeth“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer“People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”
— Gayle Forman“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
— Brian Tracy“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.”
— Colleen Hoover“No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”
— Salman Rushdie“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”
— Anne Lamott“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the present, and warning to the future.”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.”
— Karl Lagerfeld“It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.”
— Shannon L. Alder“Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.”
— Suzy Kassem“Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.”
— TemitOpe Ibrahim“The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right; as if our hands hold memories of meeting in a thousand other lifetimes.”
— John Mark Green“The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .”
— Chelsie Shakespeare“When you die, you just die. No ghost, no reincarnation, no heaven. People want to believe that their souls live on or whatever, but that's only because they can't handle the idea of the world going on without them.”
— Leila Sales“As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.”
— Anna Akhmatova“Loving you feels like my commitment to eternity a long time ago”
— Nicola AnLet your past make you better, not bitter.
— Jamie McGuire