Living In Past Quotes

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

I'm not the type of person that lives in the past, quite honestly.

Living in the past is a Jethro Tull album, not a smart poker strategy.

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

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, 'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

You can't live in nostalgia-land.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

I am not living in the past.

People say, 'Don't live in the past.' But I guess it depends on how interesting your past is.

While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live.

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

Anyone who limits his vision to his memories of yesterday is already dead.

I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can't spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.