Aimee Mann Quotes

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I don't want to live the rest of my life thinking about you and dreaming of what might have been. Stay with me, Allie.

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

It's really good to be able to think about past loves without having a pit in my stomach, or cringing or feeling heart-broken, or like they hate you. Don't you think?

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

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.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

I don't think your missing pieces ever fit inside you again once they go missing.

With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you become sentimental for the good times and lose track of what went wrong.

That's what I realized: if I did get her back somehow, she wouldn't fill the hole that losing her created.

The past is a closed door.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.