George Bernard Shaw Quotes

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

I don't talk about the past.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

I think when two people get together, their past is their past. Their reputations are reputations. You can only take someone the way you find them... on face value.

The happiest time in any man’s life is just after his first divorce.

Your past should not be a life sentence.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.

Everyone wants to talk about terrible breakups. Breakups are horrible, they're relatable, and people do them badly. Everyone has a story of a terrible breakup.

I don't have the time to think about my past, and I don't think I need to.

I think when a relationship doesn't work in your life, it doesn't mean that your life is over.

When you're down and have just split up from your partner everyone says you have to move forward. 'Get on with your life,' 'It's time to meet someone new,' and 'Don't think about the past' are phrases you'll hear for at least six months after the horrible event.

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

I would say that if you really want to STOP knowing someone, you have to divorce him.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

When she packed up to leave, she knew that she was saying goodbye to something important, which was not that bad, in a way, because it meant that at least you had said hello to it to begin with.

When you split from someone, it doesn't have to mean that you don't love them anymore, you realize that the period of that particular romance is over. One always has to get out before one gets kicked out.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.