Aravind Adiga Quotes

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

We are tomorrow's past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot - past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

If you live in the past, you've got no future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

I think when you get inured with the past, you get committed to the past, you stop growing.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

There's the life you live and the life you leave behind. but what you share with someone else - especially someone you love - that's not just how you bury your past. It's how you write you future.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.