Jay Asher Quotes

The past is over and done and cannot be changed. This is the only moment we can experience.

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

There is no comfort looking forth nor back, The present gives the lie to all her past.

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

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

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

We can never go back.

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

The past is not a package one can lay away.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right now.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

You can't relive your life.

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

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

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

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.