579 quotes found
“Human migration is an important part of our ancestral story. The places we live shape us, the places we leave behind forges our history, and the places we might travel to becomes our mysterious fut...”
“Is that what makes me sad? The eagerness and belief that filled me then and exacted a pledge from life that life could never fulfill?”
“When the time is right, life will have a meaning.When the time is right, world will be bright again.When the time is right, things will fall into place.Just remember, never regret.”
“[] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock...”
“There is no shame in having been the woman I was. She made me the woman I am.”
“The past is never where you think you left it.”
“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
“What's past is prologue.”
“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
“This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.”
“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.”
“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past.”
“Fuck the past. This was the present.”
“Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past”
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”
