Matthew Sweet Quotes

Don't think about what you've left behind.

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

The best years are behind me.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go back.

The past is over.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

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

I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

There's no sustenance in the past.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

All the things that are in the past are in the past.