Roxane Gay Quotes

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

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

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.

I don't talk about the past.

I don't like looking back.

I don't much like looking back.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

I just don't like to talk about the past.

I don't like to dwell on the past.

You can't think about the past anymore.

Whatever happened in the past is in the past.

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

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.