Christopher Isherwood Quotes

The past is over.

The past is a closed door.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

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

I think we all agree, the past is over.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

We can never go back.

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

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

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

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

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

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

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

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

Once you get it in your head you're finished with something, to go back, it hurts.