“The past is the past, the future is all that is worth discussing.”— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Petyr Baelish, Aidan Gillen, imdb.com
“Ghosts seek appreciative knowledge of both past and future. Vampires seek manipulative knowledge from both past and future, but as a means to changing the future.”— Venkatesh Rao, amazon.com
“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we're in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present. That now is the creative point of life. So you see its like the idea of forgiving somebody, you change the meaning of the pa…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. By remembering the past we can plan for the future. But the ability to plan for the future is offset by the "ability" to dr…”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.”— Osho, osho.com
“Yesterday is gone and you will be OK. Place your past into a book. Burn the pages, let 'em cook.”— Sia, play.spotify.com
“The problems that are in front of you are actually behind you; they are cracks in your foundation that are holding you back. Stop trying to dismantle symptoms, go back and identify the causes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Trying to make sense of your life is trying to see if the old story checks out, if the person you once were would be happy with the life they lead today. You're looking for answers in people that don't exist.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Familiar like a forgotten song from long ago that takes you back to a moment the second you hear it. And you recognize who you were. Then. And now. And you have to figure out how to reconcile the two.”— Katy Regnery, amazon.com
“Reach into the past and remember the reasons you fell in love. Hold on to that, son, and cherish it. Then you must start moving forward again.”— J.L. Berg, amazon.com
“He'll stare at the house for a long time, not remembering / the aftertaste of ice-cube tray popsicles, / searching for something he can call his. He'll have to drive away, like he always does-- / because your'e gone, and you've been gone, / and anyway, he was wrong about the color of your eyes.”— Kara Searcy, google.com
“I suppose it was just old, I suppose it was just its time, or maybe it was only some stray image, twisted minute of a dream, broken bit of a story I've taken for memory. I could do it, I think. It's like religion that way. You simply begin to believe.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com