Diane Keaton Quotes

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

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

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

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.

There's no sustenance in the past.

I tend not to look back. It's confusing.

So I said I wanted you to stay, even though nothing could stay the same.

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

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

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

Our love is strong. Why carry on without me?

Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

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.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

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?

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

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

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

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

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

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.