Ivan Turgenev Quotes

So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me - a long, long road without a goal.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

I don't talk about the past.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

I don't like looking back.

I can't really dwell on the past.

I don't much like looking back.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

Groan and forget it.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

You can't think about the past anymore.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.