Quotes tagged ‘Past’

“Dr. Victor Frankenstein: I cannot unmake the past! The Creature: I'm not concerned with the past, only the future.”

— John Logan, The Creature, Rory Kinnear, imdb.com

“We can’t change the past, but there’s a difference between moving on and letting go.”

— Robert Hull, Leslie Thompkins, Harley Quinn, imdb.com

“If I now change my past, I will change who I am right now.”

— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“We trust that time is linear. That it proceeds eternally, uniformly. Into infinity. But the distinction between past, present and future is nothing but an illusion. Yesterday, today and tomorrow are not consecutive, they are connected in a never-ending circle. Everything is connected.”

— Jantje Friese, The Stranger, Andreas Pietschmann, imdb.com

“But things in the past are like a plate that's shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“It all really happened, so you can't undo it.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“In a world of time, nothing can go back to the way it was.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Going back is more difficult than going forward, I discover.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The future is scary but you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Robin Scherbatsky, Cobie Smulders, imdb.com

“My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”

— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com

“Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient starts that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all a…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, amazon.com

“I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.”

— Martin Van Buren, amazon.com

“I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.”

— Mary Spio, amazon.com

“The man who has learned the great truth that the method of God with his world is the method of evolution, of growth, of slow and steady advance, has also learned not to look with contempt upon the past.”

— Minot Savage, archive.org

“You can't go back and change the past; it's over with. All we can do is try to make it better.”

— Gary Ridgway, komonews.com

“The past is always with us. Where we come from, what we go through, how we go through it; all this shit matters. Like at the end of the book, ya know, boats and tides and all. It's like you can change up, right, you can say you're somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story.”

— David Simon, D'Angelo Barksdale, Lawrence Gilliard Jr, imdb.com

“Accept your own story. Reject your past’s hold on your future but do yourself a favor: accept your past. Take it to the hill. Stand with it laid bare in the shadow of the cross. Believe God. Receive grace. Surrender self-hatred. Simply live as 1 to whom His grace was not in vain.”

— Beth Moore, twitter.com

“Some people believe that without history, our lives amount to nothing. At some point, we all have to choose. Do we fall back on what we know? Or, do we step forward, to something new? It’s hard not to be haunted by our past. Our history is what shapes us, what guides us. Our history resurfaces. Time…”

— Stacy McKee, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com