unrecoverable past Quotes

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

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

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable.

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.