Quotes About Past

Not where are they now, dead seven years, But what they were then?

I have already lost touch with a couple people I used to be.

That I am trapped in this particular irrelevancy is never more apparent to me than when I am home. Paralyzed by the neurotic lassitude engendered by meeting one's past at every turn, around every corner, inside every cupboard, I go aimlessly from room to room.

Everyone was younger then, and in the telling a certain glow suffuses those years.

There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.

We have travelled into the past and returned to find that our present is not quite the same as we left it. Atticus Finch will never again be the white knight we once thought him. And yet the mockingbird still sings — no longer a song of innocence, but maybe one of experience; a song that combines sorrow, forgiveness — and, ultimately, a kind of hope.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It feels less like a wound, more like a poultice.

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.

Everything you're seeing up in the night sky happened thousands of years ago, because the light takes so long to reach us," Gabriel says. "I always thought it was so strange… that sailors chart where they're going in the future by looking at a map of the past.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

Unaffected by your presence, forgetting your past glory. Forgetting the memories.

Forgiveness is a key to opening 1 door & looking forward to the future. Forgetting is another key to a lock'd door behind you to forget the past.

The hardest thing about moving on is forgetting the past, but the hardest part about forgetting the past is moving on..

The key of my happiness, just forgetting my past..