Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

No more memories, no more silent tears. No more gazing across the wasted years. Help me say goodbye.

When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind...And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me? Will you be happy when I am in the earth? Will you say twenty years hence, "That's the grave of Catherine Earnshaw? I loved her long ago, and was wretched to lose her; but it is past. I've loved many others since: my children are dearer to me than she was; and, at death, I shall not rejoice that I am going to her: I shall be sorry that I must leave them!" Will you say so, Heathcliff?

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

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.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

I drug your ghost across the country, and we plotted out my death. Every city and memory we whispered "Here is where you rest." Well I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees And I settled for a telephone, sang into your machine: "You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

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

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.