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Quotes tagged ‘The Past’
I think dwelling on the past for longer than a few months is really dull.
I came to you in confidence. How am I supposed to prove to people I've changed when you're there to chirp in their ears and remind them of my past?
— David H. Goodman, Robert Hull, Regina Mills / Evil Queen, Lana Parrilla, imdb.com
I’m tired of hearing about my past. It used to be ‘More people! More noise! Distract me!’ But now it’s ‘Shhh!’ Taking time for [me] is important. I learned that the hard way, unfortunately. But I did. And I want to share that with other people.
Stop giving me shit! Stop rehashing my past for no reason, because everything is different now.
There's always going to be things that have happened, and things people have said in the past that you can't control. But the past is in the past.
At the reunion, I broke long-held mythologies about my classmates, who remained frozen in time as 17-year-olds. But I also began to tear down the mythologies I held for myself.
Bob Lee: I hope Carlita made it out OK. Isaac: She knew what she was doing. Bob Lee: That psycho didn't get in your head too bad, did he? Isaac: Nah. You? Bob Lee: I'm good. I'm thinking you might be right, though. Once we finish this thing, we should leave all of our old shit in the past. Isaac: Co…
Tom Ripley: Don't you just take the past, and put it in a room in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do. Peter: God, yes. Though in my case, it's probably a whole building.
Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
There are times when it’s possible to play both predator and prey, for his decision to neither take too much from me nor give too little.
If you want to change something forever, you can’t ever go back. Going back erases what you did before.
Sadie: I could swear I do know you. Who are you? Jake: Someone you knew in another life.
None of us can change the things we’ve done. But we can all change what we do next.
— Dan Nowak, Naren Shankar, Robin Veith, Col. Frederick Lucius Johnson, Chad L. Coleman, imdb.com
Your pain defines who you are but it no longer holds power on you.
Don’t waste your time looking back. You’re not going that way.
David: We've been clutching so desperately to the past, and for what? Ruth: Because that's when there was hope.
The past is the past. And the only direction in life that matters is forward. Never backwards.
— Cheo Hodari Coker, Henry 'Pop' Hunter, Frankie Faison, imdb.com
Maybe you've got to sit with the past before you can walk away from it.
— Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie, Sheriff Merrill Dobson, Patrick St. Esprit, imdb.com
Don't you wish you could just take it back? That thing you said? That thing you did? There's no undo button. There's only hoping we can learn. We can change, right? We can do better. We can't take back what we've done. We can't undo the past, cause the future keeps coming at us.