Jackson Browne Quotes

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

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

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

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

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

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

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

In any case, you can't turn back the clock.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I only remember the future.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

Going home is not necessarily a wonderful experience. It always comes with a sense of loss and makes you so conscious of the inexorable passage of time.

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn't.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

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

Time. I would have gone somewhere to buy time.

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

You, yesterday, did the usual things, just as any day, You don't know if it's worth remembering. You would prefer to remember, there lying in the half-darkness of the bedroom, not what has happened already but what is going to happen. In your half-darkness your eyes would prefer to look ahead, not behind, and they do not know how to foresee the past.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.