John D. Barrow Quotes

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

History is history.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

The Union as it was. The Union as it is, and the Union as it shall be.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

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

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

I can't. You can't rewrite the past.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all the things you did that you think you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or didn't ) do them. That's reality. That's what happened. No changing the past.

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

I'd love to tell you that something is going to change tomorrow. But the reality is that it won't.

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.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.