Greg Iles Quotes

Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

For tyme y-lost may not recovered be.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

There ain't no future in the past.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

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

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

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

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.