Tatyana Tolstaya Quotes

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

The best years are behind me.

I don't like looking back.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

I don't much like looking back.

I don't spend any time whatsoever thinking about what might have been.

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

You can't edit yesterday's paper.

The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

I try very hard not to look back.

You cannot look back and think what if.

Yesterday is just a memory.

The past is a sorry country.

O, call back yesterday, bid time return