Lana Del Rey Quotes

Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Old memories are very easy to get except that once you write about something you've destroyed it.

We all have appointments with the past.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

I can't really dwell on the past.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot of adventure stories and mystery books, and I have wonderful memories of my mom reading picture books aloud to me. I learned that words are powerful.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's people you haven't seen in a while, there are people that have passed away, and there are people you owe phone calls to.

I don't like to look too far back into the past.