D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.

The past is not a package one can lay away.

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.

We all look for lost time.

There's no sustenance in the past.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

We all have appointments with the past.

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.

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

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

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

...You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Pretending the past doesn't exist is as bad as living in it.

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

I myself am more and more inclined to agree with Omar and Satchel Paige as I grow older: Don't try to rewrite what the moving finger has writ, and don't ever look over your shoulder.

The past is dead except for the life you give it

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.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.