Aravind Adiga Quotes

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Don't look back, you can never look back

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

I don't like looking back.

My own memories are packed tightly away. I very rarely bring them out for viewing.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

I try very hard not to look back.

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

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

You can't think about the past anymore.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

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.

You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

The past was so past it hurt.

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

No looking back. Life goes one way only, and whatever opinions you hold about the past having nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

I should have known right then it was too good to last, God, it's such a drag when you're livin' in the past

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

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.

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.