Orson Scott Card Quotes

We are tomorrow's past.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

We can never go back.

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's you can never go 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.

What is past cannot be rewritten, but it is within our power to rewrite the future.

I only remember the future.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

The past is a closed door.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

There ain't no future in the past.

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

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.