Ayumi Hamasaki Quotes

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Guilt lies in the past, worry lies in the future.

You can't regret anything - it's over with.

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.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

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

You can't do anything about the past. And you don't know what the future is.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

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

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

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.

We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

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

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

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

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

You can't change what happened. But you can still change what will happen.

I just don't like to talk about the past.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.