“You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.”— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”— Nicole Sobon, amazon.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.”— Sue Grafton, amazon.com
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.”— Marcel Pagnol, en.marcel-pagnol.com
“I want a new past, new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.”— Isaac Marion, amazon.com
“I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.”— Iggy Pop, rollingstone.com
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote 'no future for you!' Don't let the irony be lost.”— John Lydon, axs.com
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com