Lauren Oliver Quotes

I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

The past is not clinging to you; YOU are clinging to the past. Once you are not clinging, the past simply EVAPORATES!

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.

I don't even want to go back to '81.

Your mind knows your pretending, but, in terms of the adrenaline and the fact that you are actually crying, and that you are that upset, and you are screaming, and you are simulating terror, your body does not know that it is not real. Your body feels really wrecked afterwards.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.