Henning Mankell Quotes

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

We all have appointments with the past.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I am not the kind of woman who excuses her mistakes while reminding us of what used to be.

The want to return to the fold doesn't mean you can repeat history.

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

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame.

I don't really regret much. I know there are things that I've done that have been wrong, and wish I could do over again, but I feel it's all made me who I am today, and I'm very thankful for that.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

I don't really believe in regrets.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.