Past Quotes

We think in generalities, but we live in details. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

I fling my past behind me like a robe, Worn threadbare at the seams, and out of date. I have outgrown it.

Why should I waste my time reliving the past when I can spend it worrying about the future?

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Water under the bridge.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

It’s not worth crying over spilt milk.

Many a woman has a past, but I am told she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

Let bygones be bygones.