Viggo Mortensen Quotes

I don't think you can ever return, really.

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

The past is a country from which we have all emigrated

Say goodbye to yesterday...those are the words I'll never say.

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

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

Events have moved on, yet some people still keep talking about the past.

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

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

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

Better take the keys and drive forever. Staying won't put these futures back together. All the perfect drugs and superheroes wouldn't be enough to bring me back to zero.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--

I'd never choose to turn the clock back.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

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

Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

Past is past.

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

I used to be.

The past is past; what's gone on has gone on.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

You can't go back and alter the past.