Tabitha King Quotes

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

The Photograph is concerned with the power that the past has to interfere with the present: the time bomb in the cupboard.

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

I wish my father had lived longer. He died when I was 18.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

Incidents of the past - a lost love, a missed opportunity - shape us and make us what we are.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.

There's nothing worse than saying the past is in the past, then dragging it into your kid's life.

We are sons of yesterday, not of the morning. The past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul.

I think family skeletons are best left where they are-- in the closet

History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

The past has a lobby …; the future does not have a lobby.

History is not the past. History is the present. We carry our history with us.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.