Nora Roberts Quotes

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

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

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

The past is over.

The past has nothing more to teach us. Then why not let it be …. We must look ahead …. Unless we learn to forget, we will be turned into a pillar of salt.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

You can't relive your life.

If you live in the past, you've got no future.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

We can never go back.

Dwelling in the past prevents doing something in the present.

The past is a closed door.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

There ain't no future in the past.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.