Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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.

Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.

I would have liked the old days.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

The past is another planet.

Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, "just in case," in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

We all look for lost time.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.