Dead Past Quotes

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. —William Faulkner”

— Stephanie Tyler

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

— V. S. Naipaul

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

— Will Durant

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

— William Faulkner

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

— M.R. Gott

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

— Oodgeroo Noonuccal

If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.

— Charles Bukowski

“We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.”

— Clive Barker

Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

“The dead are past our help though it's hard sometimes to live without them. They take a piece of us with them…

— Hannah Nordhause