Robert Nathan Quotes

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

We can never go back.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth.

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

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

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

The past is over.

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

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

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?

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.

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

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

The best years are behind me.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I'm just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get 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 think we all agree, the past is over.

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

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

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