Unchangeable Past Quotes

“When L.P. Hartley wrote ‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there in the opening lines of his 1953 novel 'The Go-Between', he created one of the most memorable and famous opening lines in English Literature. The distant past is indeed a
foreign country for any mature person considering their youth, and every one of us has an unchangeable past that looks very different now than it did then.

As memories accumulate and tumble in upon each other, and unresolved, discordant issues jostle, protrude and disturb the mind’s peace, the past all too often becomes an uncomfortable, grief-littered and unwelcoming
country. The past, however, might as well be set in stone as there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that we can do to shade it differently to what it actually is ... and actually was.”
― Roger Macdonald Andrew, Forgive: Finding Inner Peace Through Words of Wisdom