Hanif Kureishi Quotes

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

I tell people that life is like a book. Sometimes you've just got to turn the chapter. Even if you don't understand it, turn the chapter and move away from it. You don't know all the good things that are ahead of you yet.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

I'm always looking ahead, not backwards.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

Take what you have learned, and move on.

I don't think about my old stuff. I just move forward.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

There is always a time to move on.

The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

I never like to think about going back; I only look forward.

Irrespective of our past, we need to look forward.

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

I don't look back on history. I want to look forward to the future.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

What has happened has happened and it is now behind you. Take the best of it all as you move positively forward.

One should look forward rather than backwards.