Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

Catch up with your past, before it catches up with you.

As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

Nothing ever goes away.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

I believe we move in soul groups; we meet the same people over different lifetimes; we have to finish the unfinished business with those people. And when we do, they walk away from our lives.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship.

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to escape.

History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

I don't believe you get to just act like things didn't happen because it's uncomfortable or sad.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.