Rodman Philbrick Quotes

The best time is always yesterday.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

The past is a sorry country.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

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

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

Don't waste your time away thinkin' 'bout yesterday's blues.

I don't like looking back.

I don't much like looking back.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

I try very hard not to look back.

You can't think about the past anymore.

There is no point staying on the past.

We can't worry about what's happened in the past. We can't go back and play those games.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

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

The past is never where you think you left it.

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 was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

Don't ruin a good today by thinking of a bad yesterday, Let it go!