Colin Hay Quotes

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

I wanted to write what I remembered to be true.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

I dwell in the past.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

By the time the discussion starts about a movie, it's like bringing up an old boyfriend. It's like, 'I don't even remember exactly what he was like, and now we have to talk about it?'

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

I exist only in the past.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

I'm not particularly fond of the past, but I do ramble on about it quite a bit.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.