Past Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

“We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The past has a way of walking around in the present, behaving as if it were alive.”

— Anatol Lieven

“Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.”

— Bryant McGill

“That sometimes the past can resurface, wrap around us and consume us in all the ways it did before.”

— Veronica Larsen

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck

“A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth…

— Gregory David Roberts

“So you see and judge the present through the eyes of the past and get a totally distorted view of it.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“Forget not the past. The past prepares us for the present. The present equipped us for the future.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“The only thing you can change about the past is how you feel about it in the present.”

— Neil Dylandy