Pliny the Elder Quotes

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

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

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

The past is over.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

The belief that we can be done with our past is a myth.

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

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

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

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

The past can't be changed, can it? It can just be forgiven.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?

Time flies, and what is past is done.