Quotes About The Past Quotes

“Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“You NEED to look back to remember the awesome memories, to remember the positive lessons you have learned, to help someone else learn from what you have lived and to see how far you have come.”
― Comic Strip Mama, Stairway to Awesomeness!: 30 Fundamental Steps to Living a Life of Awesomeness!

“The past keeps drawing him back, there is just so much of it. Too much to bear. The past is a weight that pulls him down beneath dark and cloudy waters. An image comes unbidden to his mind. A vision of a wheel, and the wheel no longer turns. It is not that I prefer the company of the dead, he thinks, it is that the dead are the only company I have, the only company I deserve. There is another existence, a wheel that still turns, and I can see it, but I see it as if through a veil.”
― Jake Ozga, Into Dark Water

“Do you like neck pain? Then stop looking behind you into the past.”
― Jaclyn Johnston

“The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must be banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.”
― Paul S. Kemp, Lords of the Sith

“Change wish to wonder. I don't wish my past were different, but I do wonder what it could have been.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“The past does not go away because we refuse to look at it.”
― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Running Backward

“There were times she thought she’d made so many leaps and bounds she might as well be a different person; and then there were times, like now, that knocked her so far back into the past she might as well have never left.”
― Dianna Hardy, Fathoms Deep: A Blood Shadow Novel