Elbert Hubbard Quotes

The past is not a package one can lay away.

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

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

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

The past is over.

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

I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.

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

The past is a closed door.

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

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

The best years are behind me.

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

I don't much like looking back.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

Sometimes you revisit things and relationships, and then you get going on in it, and you realized that there is a reason this ended.

I only felt a cold wind blow while I tried to hang on to the past.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

The past is just something that's over.

We all have appointments with the past.

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

Yesterday is just a memory.

I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.