But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.
What happens in the past, is in the past. But don't be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.
...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.
The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.
The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.
If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
As human beings, even if we were to have tried to forget the past, if you dealt with it in a cavalier fashion, it would return to haunt you.
What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.
Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
In the aftermath of September 11, you can't - as Tony Blair was so fond of suggesting - draw a line under historical events. They don't go away. They come back.
No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.
Money is great, but history is something that you can never get rid of and act like it didn't happen.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
