Emily Dickinson Quotes

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

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

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.

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

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

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

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

The past is a closed door.

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

The past is dead except for the life you give it

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 don't much like looking back.

You can't go back and alter the past.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

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

My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Yesterday is just a memory.

We can never go back.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.