Bob Dylan Quotes

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

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.

We can never go back.

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 past is just something that's over.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

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

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

The past is a closed door.

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.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

The past is over.

We don’t get to replay history.

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

Time is something you can't get back.

You simply cannot change what has happened in the past.

I move slowly, and I used to move fast. I miss that.