Boredom Quote by Anton Chekhov

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We are all our past have made us. The accumulation of thousands of daily choices. We can change ourselves, but never erase what we've…

— Cassandra Clare

“The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and…

— Tessa Hadley

“Things stay with you, they say, and the past grows into a living organism that you can never really shake off. Everything you've ever…

— Ramona Wray

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The past is our treasure. Its works, whether we know them or not, flourish in our lives with whatever strength they had. From it…

— Freya Stark

“entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.”

— Richard Ford

“We all have something in our past that makes us reevaluate our future.”

— Sara Shirley

“What we think about, we speak; what we dwell on, we become. Our past is only important because it has been and is being…

— Hawkes Valente, Sarah

“If we are going to revisit the past, let us go there only to learn from our past mistakes, and not to make it…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Is it intelligent to make ourselves miserable while living in the past, haunted by memories while being inexorably swallowed by them? Whenever we reminisce…

— Hiram Crespo

“We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply…

— John Kuypers