Colm Toibin Quotes

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

You can't regret anything - it's over with.

His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

I had planned to accomplish something considerable, and this is the end.

I can't dwell on the past. It's over, there's nothing I can do about it.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

The past is a closed door.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

When something's over with me, it's over.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I never look at things again once they're done.

If you don't know by now, you're never going to know.

I wondered vaguely if this was when it would end, whether I would pull up tonight's darkness like a quilt and be dead and at peace evermore.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

I'm one of those people where, if I go back and look at it, I'm going to feel like, 'I wish I would have... ' I need to just leave it on the floor. What's done is done.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.