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Once again she had the disorientating feeling that her past was still happening, unfolding in a parallel stream right alongside her present.
— Nell Freudenberger, The Newlyweds
Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes the only way to move forward is to revisit the things in your past that were holding you back. You have to deal with them head on, no matter how scary they may be. Because once we do, you will see that you can go further than you ever imagined.
— Barry Allen "The Flash"
There's this quote - "if there's anything I have learnt about life is that IT MOVES ON"let me tell you, these three words are only first half of the story. The other half is these five words - "YOU HAVE TO LET GO"If you continue to cling to your past, how will your life Ever move on. Some effort is required from your end too.
— Mansi Laus Deo
If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.
— Patricia Briggs
How do you know that past exist?
— Deyth Banger
I try not to look backwards, Elise. Makes is hard to see where you're going.
— Kelly Bowen, A Duke to Remember
I Tried, But What I Had with You I Couldn’t Have with Anyone Else.
— Ahmed Ali Anjum, Talking Pillow
even in death, his last breath was poetryexisting in the wind and on the breeze of"it used to be likes" forever remembering,yet never relivinghis lifewill never be what it used to be like.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love.
— Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors
Don't let your past cloud your judgement for the things that are happening in the present. Past is nothing but a distant memory. Fear of something that has happened in the past will ruin your present happiness.
— Ashbeel Roy
Because to ignore what had happened in the recent and distant pasts, to turn away and look elsewhere because it was easier to do so, was to be an accomplice to the crimes that were committed. To refuse to delve deeper would be to collude with the offenders.
— John Connolly, The Unquiet
According to the strange mathematics of the god of mutual affinity, the shadows that clouded their pasts when united became only half as dense instead of darker. - The World And The Door
— o.henry
I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
Who would awaken the past? It shines like a sunriseAnd cuts like a fine blade.
— Juliet Marillier, Foxmask
When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally do not actually want, they experience the need to abandon their corporeal prison at a certain time in life. ( "Corporeal prison" )
— Erik Pevernagie
The past is what it is—good and bad, it’s written and unchanging. And there’s solace to be had in that.”Tears pricked her eyes. “What do you mean?”There was a long pause. “The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can’t get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.
— J.R. Ward, The King
The typewriter is indeed my passport into a world otherwise barred to me and my kind.
— Suzanne Rindell, The Other Typist
But you know what they say - old milk turns sour but old scores just get sweeter.
— Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
I had run to boarding school to escape myself. But I couldn't escape who I was or what I'd done, no matter how fast or far I ran. The crows were just a reminder of that. They wanted back in.My past wasn't done with me.Not yet.
— A.R. Kahler, Shades of Darkness
do not allow yourself to be someone back-up plan, just in cAse, a B-plan, a second-line or contingency plan..even love can make the future different but it will never erase their past; the fact is we all people might have someone we'd take at any moment no matter how much they hurt us in the past (Ejump,2016)
— Ejump Schiffler
And then you’ll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who’s only yours. And you’ll realize… that this is where your life is.
— Colm Tóibín
What I am searching for is the gaps - the silences. This is how I see the past: as an excavation. You sift through the rubble, pick up one fragment here, another there, label it and record where you found it, noting the time and date of discovery. It is not just the foundations I am looking for but something at once more and less tangible.
— Azar Nafisi, Things I've Been Silent About: Memories
It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.
— Susan Sontag
There’s something in my voice that brings him back to me, overrides his buzz. ‘Gaby’—all traces of playfulness have gone—‘if anything ever happens to me, you’ll be fine. You’re strong enough to look after yourself. I hate to admit it, but you don’t need me. Never did.’ A smile. ‘But listen, nothing is going to happen today. It’s all good.’‘Jude, we’re high enough up to get a nose bleed.’‘So come with me.’I blink. ‘Fuck off.’‘I mean it. We can do this together.’ He raises his eyebrows at the girl who checked his harness. She nods.I risk looking over the side. There’s a river far beneath us. So far down we can’t hear it. My entire body goes numb.‘You’ve got about thirty seconds and then I’m going on my own.’What a choice: watch my brother jump out of this car or put aside my own fear and go with him. Share the recklessness. Why didn’t we go to Paris? We’d be arguing over where to buy cheese right now.Adrenaline begins to burn through me. ‘Screw it.’Jude breaks into a wide smile. ‘Seriously?’I glance at the yawning space beneath us. ‘Hurry up before I change my mind.
— Paula Weston, Haze
Ghosts are everywhere, not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, but ghosts of us too, what we used to be like in those long summers.
— Eve Chase, Black Rabbit Hall
A mixture, before the English, of irritation and bafflement, of having this same language, same past, so many same things, and yet not belonging to them any more. Being worse than rootless... speciesless.
— John Fowles, The Magus
Her today's silence is the unheard shouts from past that you never listened.
— Himanshu Chhabra
Nostalgia is your brain's way of photoshopping the blemishes of your past.
— Steve Maraboli
Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I live with past called "DeYtH" ( a guy who is famous with cs 1.6 maps, mods, photoshop and e.t.c. and with my now "Mark Tven", you probably said "Oh,Oh I know this name this guy was a writer..." it's not taken the guy was called Mark Twain, I'm Tven, famous with awesome maps and interesting updates of cs 1.6 maps. To don't forget, I'm famous with my nick of past with writting.
— Deyth Banger
To invest into a memory that will only take you down a road that cannot be traveled is futile and counter-productive. It takes us away from the here and now, and it only impedes our well-being when we give nostalgic cadence to this venture.
— DC Gunnersen
It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.
— Sang-Sun Park, The Tarot Cafe, #2
I couldn't change the past, but hell if I didn't want to be what Kate needed now.
— Nicole Jacquelyn, Unbreak My Heart
You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.
— Ali Rezavand Zayeri
It is pointless and impossible to maintain a modern ideology based on inaccurate memories of a dead and distant past.
— Yasin al Hafiz
There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.
— Anthony Liccione
If there isn't now, there isn't past, if there isn't past there isn't future... What if everything has happen in one day but in different periods???Can I say this??
— Deyth Banger
Moving on is not about forgetting the past
—  it’s about learning from it. Find the message in the mess…Cry. Forgive. Learn. That’s moving on.
Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?
— Deyth Banger
Sweet as the past may be, it best remains pressed between the pages of memory, savoured for a moment or two on quiet Sunday afternoons.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said.
— Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
You are done with the past, but the past isn't done with you.
— Deyth Banger
Time spent looking back in anger is time wasted
— Mary  Stewart, The Last Enchantment
There is no better Eraser for the past than a good use of the present.
— Seun Ayilara
Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026...
— Deyth Banger
You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.
— K. Weikel, The One-Hundred: Part 2 - The Beneath
We imagine that we remember things as they were, while in fact all we carry into the future are fragments which reconstruct a wholly illusory past. That first death we witness will always be a murmur of voices down a corridor and a clock falling silent in the darkened room, the end of love is forever two spent cigarettes in a saucer and a white door closing.
— John Banville, Birchwood
I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
— Cindy Crawford
Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.
— Elle Sommer
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, The Later Poems, 1837-1864: Volumes I and II
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, The Water Castle
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, The Water Castle
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, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
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, Love Like Crazy
Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
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, Bad Feminist
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, Doctor Sleep
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, Ship of Destiny
Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.
— Osho
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, Poems 1916
Writers don't forget the past
—  they turn it into raw material.
You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.
— Preeti Shenoy, It Happens for a Reason
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, Highway Writings
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, Everything Beautiful Began After
That's what I like so much about old libraries - they smell the way we'd like to imagine the past.
— Ruth Reichl, Delicious!
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 Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson
The past is uselessto me now:an old suitcasewith mould in the lining,heavy even when empty.
— Robyn Sarah, The Touchstone: New and Selected Poems
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, Nothing is here...
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
Your life is written in indelible ink. There's no going back to erase the past, tweak your mistakes, or fill in missed opportunities. When the moment's over, your fate is sealed. But if look closer, you notice the ink never really dries on any our experiences. They can change their meaning the longer you look at them.Klexos.There are ways of thinking about the past that aren't just nostalgia or regret. A kind of questioning that enriches an experience after the fact. To dwell on the past is to allow fresh context to trickle in over the years, and fill out the picture; to keep the memory alive, and not just as a caricature of itself. So you can look fairly at a painful experience, and call it by its name.Time is the most powerful force in the universe. It can turn a giant into someone utterly human, just trying to make their way through. Or tell you how you really felt about someone, even if you couldn't at the time. It can put your childhood dreams in context with adult burdens or turn a universal consensus into an embarrassing fad. It can expose cracks in a relationship that once seemed perfect. Or keep a friendship going by thoughts alone, even if you'll never see them again. It can flip your greatest shame into the source of your greatest power, or turn a jolt of pride into something petty, done for the wrong reasons, or make what felt like the end of the world look like a natural part of life.The past is still mostly a blank page, so we may be doomed to repeat it. But it's still worth looking into if it brings you closer to the truth.Maybe it's not so bad to dwell in the past, and muddle in the memories, to stem the simplification of time, and put some craft back into it. Maybe we should think of memory itself as an art form, in which the real work begins as soon as the paint hits the canvas. And remember that a work of art is never finished, only abandoned.
— The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
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, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
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, Flowers for Algernon
He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.
— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid down.
— Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company
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, Chiara Corbella Petrillo
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, Requiem
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, Pandemonium
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, Thirty: A Collection of Personal Quotes, Advice, and Lessons
She stood up. Something inside her had changed. "It was finally time," she thought. It was finally time to leave the past in the past. And move on. She took her first step. It felt like walking for the first time. It was strange to not be chained anymore. It felt like life. Like hope. Like happiness.
— Yasmin Mogahed
By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117
— Marie Kondō
The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful...
— Henri Bergson
I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
It is not memories but the person we have become because of those past 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 the person we were in the past. P.118
— Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
How long since he'd been back home? Ten years? Fifteen? He'd stopped keeping track around the time he'd finally stopped looking over his shoulder. At the time, leaving had seemed too good to be true. He'd spent months feeling like he was half a step ahead of some nameless specter; like if he let his guard down, even for a second, whatever it was would drag him right back where he'd come from.
— Laura  Oliva, Season Of The Witch
I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
My sense of the past is vivid and slow. I hear every sign and see every shadow.
— Barry Hannah, Airships
Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.
— Louise Penny, Bury Your Dead
You want to brawl. You want to fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.
— Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
He was a stranger here. The people who might remember him would certainly not welcome him. His old gang had cast him out, along with all of the former friends and parents. The suburban landscape of hypocrisy, so hated in his youth, beheld again and with it, old feelings that motivated him through life more than he would ever admit. Every turning point in life, already decided by all the events here
— Jaime Allison Parker, The Delta Highway
It's hard getting momentum riding a bike up hill... It's hard getting momentum when you're dragging around all the pain from your past.
— Tony Curl
When people talk about their great past they're usually trying to excuse the mediocre present.
— Terry Pratchett
You can't forget the past.
— Jen Calonita, Broadway Lights
Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life
— Sunday Adelaja
All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.  -Ram Dass
— Ram Dass
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, ChokeAs much as i still keep my past pictures to testify that Jesus reigns and change lives to help others in that situation to see that there is nothing good in this world. I also do it for me. i grow and learn each day.WHICH IS EASIER? TO HIDE IN CHURCH, LOOK LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE THERE AND FORGET I EVER LIVED A DIRTY LIFE OR WHAT I DO NOW?God bless us all.Shalom
— Mary Tornyenyor
You forget the life you had before, after awhile. Things you cherish and hold dear are like pearls on a string. Cut the knot and they scatter across the floor, rolling into dark corners never to be found again. So you move on, and eventually you forget what the pearls even looked like. At least, you try.
— Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.
— Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed
Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
Let's not go into the past.
— Ramakrishna, Springs of Indian Wisdom
Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.
— Andrew Mayne, Name of the Devil:
The past is dead, let's focus on tomorrow instead.
— Greg Graffin
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
— Bodhidharma
That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.
— Ruth Reichl
Your dirty past somehow puts GOD's grace on blast
—  it amplifies the great grace of GOD over your life.
You can't change the past.....why bother?...linger too much in the thought, you only get pulled down....Tomorrow is yet to come...GET PREPARED, that is one day you can change.
— Kelly Iyogun
The sky sinks slowly inside the past.
— Barbara Guest
The past is not a package one can lay away.
— Emily Dickinson, Selected Letters
It can be very seductive to tell our story to others who will listen because, lets face it, who doesn't love to 'commiserate' (in this context, meaning to share their misery) with other likeminded people. It justifies our attachment to the drama. The interesting thing about telling our story over and over is that it becomes even more deeply ingrained in our minds each time we tell it, and the universe delights in keeping whatever we claim as our story alive.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, The Art of Uncertainty: How to Live in the Mystery of Life and Love It
Recent generations seem to consider ‘old-fashioned’ thinking as out-dated and without place in the modern world. I beg to differ. After all, who has greater faith? He who looks to and learns from the past, or the man who cares not for consequence?
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
— Michelle Franklin
The challenge is to draw on the past but not be bound by it" p. 20
— David Brazzeal, Pray Like a Gourmet: Creative Ways to Feed Your Soul
Learn from the past, he said. Remember it and realize that in a way it is responsible for making you who you are. But also realize that the only you who really matters is who you are right now. That is the you who has the ability to act, to change lives, to do something monumental, and to influence the future you.
— Kelli Swofford Nielsen, Journey to the Fringe
The past wasn’t a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.
— Sonja Yoerg
To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.
— Toni Morrison, Beloved
He went to hell and back, to shut the door of his past, he would not let that door be opened again by others.
— Kusumastuti, Berlabuh di Lindoeya
Past is aipsom if you learned from the past.
— Debasish Mridha
Only the present exists. The past is gone, and the future has not yet happened. There is only ever time present.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined.
— Tyrean Martinson, Champion in Flight
She'd known me my whole life. It's hard to throw away history. It was like you were throwing a part of yourself.
— Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty
Just because you have a past with someone, doesn't mean you should have a future with them.
— Robert Tew
The past will disappear if we forget we existed".
— Damond Jiniya
Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.
— Rafiki
Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.
— George Orwell, 1984
I had begun to see the past like this: there is a line; you can draw it yourself, or sometimes it gets drawn for you; either way, there it is, your past, a collection of people you used to be
— Jamaica Kincaid
Don't torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now.
— Robert Tew
It does not matter what I believe. The past is done. Hope is irrelevant. We measure success and failure in history with a cost of lives. Penicillin saved people, and the world wars exterminated them. Success and failure. Feelings, regrets, the point where they knew they made mistakes...it is interesting but unfortunately, irrelevant. Did they go to their death and grieve for what they did? Did the makers of the atomic bomb grieve for the destruction they dedicated their lives towards creating? Who cares? They did it. Whether they knew what they were creating, or whether they talked themselves into believing it was for the best, the glory of history is being able to view it in black-and-white. However honorable one's initial intention, a villain will always be a villain.
— Caroline Hanson, Love Is Mortal
One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.
— Raymond Chandler
Because it happened in the past , doesn't mean it forgotten ...!!
— Doha Asrir
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, Beyond Our Control
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, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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, Ghostwritten
Bad memories were hard enough, but it was torture to be haunted by the good.
— Shelley Noble, Beach Colors
One day I was thinking about my past,It was really impossible to lose because the every moment in past was Mind blowing. <3
— Waleed Uz Zaman Khan
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, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
You are NOT an abuse survivor or victim. Leave your labels elsewhere because they are no longer serving you.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
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, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.
— Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy
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, Brother Odd
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, Coma House
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, Coma House
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, Coma House
Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
— Carla H. Krueger, Coma House
If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
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, The Blood of Olympus
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, The Buddhist Way Of Life
No lie, secret, betrayal, or mistake will remain concealed if you have a past.
— Mande Chambers, Surviving Today
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, The Forever of Ella and Micha
Yes, memories do haunt. Memories of a happy past, in the expectation of a bleak future, in a sad present. - Anita
— Nilesh Sakpal, Anita: She was strong. She had to be.
I don’t enjoy surprises that compel me to renegotiate my relationship with the past.
— Adib Khan, Spiral Road
Stop trying to be a magician. The past won’t come back. It likes its safety in memory.
— Adib Khan, Spiral Road
Before you ask God for more blessings, try to first thank Him for all your past and present blessings in your life.
I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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, Lady Oracle
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
Sometimes when you dig deep into the past, you shed uncontrollable tears.
— Adeyemo Akin
Surely time past is gone by like a shadow.
— E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros
The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.
— Human Angels
The facts about our past are powerless against the blood of Jesus and the Truth of His Word.
— Joyce Meyer
Today changes yesterday, and all the days to come. Today changes everything! The attitudes we carry in the present will change the way we view yesterday, and help us cope and make peace with all the moments behind us. It will also carry us forward in a brighter direction. The present moment is the most important, because it is what is happening right now.
— Jenna Alatari
God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.
— Jody Hedlund, Love Unexpected
However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?
— Howard Pyle, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
I had to start new, my ego told me that if past ever wanted me, I won't be calling it by that name.
— Garima Mittal
We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.
— Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Everyone has a past. I have mine, you have yours, and we have ours. No matter what it takes, I will prove to you that our past, no matter how hurtful, didn't ruin the future we could have. Only we can either make that happen or run from it. It's our decision this time, Amy. There are no outside influences that can push us one way or the other. There's only you and me and what could be.
— Melissa Foster, Seaside Secrets
Be simple, don't carry the baggage the past, open your hands, and let it go.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is easier when you don't carry baggage from the past.
— Debasish Mridha
I can't defeat anyone except my past and transcend to be better.
— Debasish Mridha
I and the girl in the picture have ceased to be the same person. I am her outcome, the result of the life she once lived headlong; whereas she, if she can be said to exist at all, is composed only of what I remember. I have the better view - I can see her clearly, most of the time. But even if she knew enough to look, she can't see me at all.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new one from Elsie, added at the bottom:15) Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that could have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past.
— Helen Fielding, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Do not allow past mistakes to shape your future.
— Lorna Jackie Wilson
My mother once told me that holding on to the past is like walking around with a pebble in your shoe. You can still keep walking, keep moving forward, but that pebble is always there nagging at you, begging for your attention. After a while, that pebble is all you can feel. Sometimes, you just have to stop walking for a minute and get rid of it once and for all.
— Ellery A. Kane
I have to tell you about these things from the past, because they are so important. The really important things usually lie in the distant past. And until you know about them, if you'll forgive my saying so, you will always to some extent a mere newcomer in my life.When I was at High School my favourite pastime was walking. Or rather, loitering. If we are talking about my adolescence, it's the more accurate word. Systematically, one by one, I explored all the districts of Pest. I relished the special atmosphere of every quarter and every street. Even now I can still find the same delight in houses that I did then. In this respect I've never grown up. Houses have so much to say to me. For me, they are what Nature used to be to the poets - or rather, what the poets thought of as Nature.But best of all I loved the Castle Hill District of Buda. I never tired of its ancient streets. Even in those days old things attracted me more than new ones. For me the deepest truth was found only in things suffused with the lives of many generations, which hold the past as permanently as mason Kelemen's wife buried in the high tower of Deva.
— Antal Szerb
The past only has power over you when it's forgotten... ignored or repressed.
— Mark Kendrick, Desert Sons
Looking back at the past is like deleting what you have created in the present.
— Kyumm
It's painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.
— Kenneth C. Agudo
Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.
— Debasish Mridha
Memories haunting her,laughters chasing her,sweet talks stalking her.Everywhere she go,everything she does,it all leads back to him.
— S G
We’re all blurry-eyed wanderers of time, and the unfortunance of it all is that we’d probably all go on to do great things if only we searched for what corrected and focused our vision instead of relying on our past – life’s grand kaleidoscope – to help us find our way forward.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
I never stopped loving her," he said. "I couldn’t let her go. Once the past gets you in its clutches, well, you’ve got to want to fight to be released. I never did. That was my mistake.
— Emylia Hall, The Book of Summers
They say you can’t change the past despite the fact it never stops changing you – but that doesn't mean we have to sit back and take it. It may change us, but we have ultimate control over how we let it.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
One’s story isn’t a skin to be shed— it’s inescapable, one’s body and blood. You go on pumping it out till you die, the story veined with the themes of your life, the ever-recurring story that’s at once your invention and the invention of you.
— Philip Roth
If your password encrypts your history then its a PASTWORD
— RD
It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Do not live WITH what you had done...Live FOR what you have to do.
— RD
Then you think, is this a better world, closer to theone before you knew of wars—earth wars? Before you found that canary in its cagelaying, barely heaving. And you took it outside and said, Go Free! Go free!But it died there, right in your hands…like all of life.Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.
— Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow
I say, we live on, though I am wrong, this is what I say.In the past, present, future, we live on as if in one time.You can never stop the past from happening,and it has happened , and will continue to happen. This is the truth, I think I know, along withthe two other things I do know.I exist.I want to kiss you. And also this: each day, as we go,we will always be as young as we can be.
— Derek Keck, The Kitchen Sinks of Yesterday Morning: The Urinal Cakes of Tomorrow
Is the ash in trees, babies, flowers, and visions of Godbetter than the visions themselves? Then you think,none of this is tangible or concrete. So you have another cigaretteand think about the (not one) but many ghosts you keep tucked away,under sheets, under beds, in notes, within other ghosts.
— Derek Keck
History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation as much as its historical subject. History presents an historian with the task of producing a dialogue between the past and the present. But as these temporal co-ordinates cannot be fixed, history becomes a continuous interaction between the historian and the past. As such, history can be seen as a process of evaluation whereby the past is always coloured by the intellectual fashions and philosophical concerns of the present. This shifting perspective on the past is matched by the fluid status of the past itself.
— Dana Arnold
The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.
— Laura     Miller, By Way of Accident
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.
— Laura     Miller, By Way of Accident
And it is silence that she hears, the silence of lost years that have no voice left in them.
— Rose Tremain, Music & Silence