353 Quotes About The-past

Every time we break with the past, we break a promise.

There are those who, even if valued, remain sinister witnesses from the past. James is for me such a witness. It is not even clear whether we like each other. If I were told today that James was dead my first emotion might be pleasurable; though how much does this prove?

what does it mean to be descendantof something monstrous?to still love the monster?

My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.

Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

We may think our past is behind us. Yet, sometimes it is blatantly in our face. Moments, seemingly lost, become inextricably intertwined with consciousness in the Here and Now.

It was too late to think about what could have been or what should have been. What’s done is done. The past was in the past and there was no changing it.

It is not good for the spirits to dwell on that which cannot be altered.