Bergen Evans Quotes

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.

Your past is not your past if it's still impacting your present.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.

I'm trying to put the past to rest, but things just keep popping up to just pull me back in.

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

You know, some people can't get past their past, I guess. I certainly haven't.

Thematically, I like playing with the ideas of stuff that you try to bury, and you think will go away, but instead you carry it with you until it becomes crippling. And sometimes you have to look back and deal with some stuff in order to truly move forward.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

I believe - what did Faulkner say? "The past is not even past."