Ken Liu Quotes

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

The past is a stepping stone, not a millstone.

The past has to inform the present.

I can't really dwell on the past.

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

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

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

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

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

There is no point staying on the past.

I really hate looking back. think it's useless. The only way is forward.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

I don't talk about the past.

I try not to dwell on the past. I'm not a big go-back-and-try-to-relive-your-past kinda person.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.