Warren Zevon Quotes

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

The past is a closed door.

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.

That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

We all look for lost time.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.