Quote by David R. Gillham

“...but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.”

— Kate Atkinson

“He would get up and go out into a world which seemed very unfamiliar, but with a tantalizing unfamiliarity like the world of boyhood…

— Robert Penn Warren

“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.”

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“I do not like to dwell on the past. Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t…

— R.J. Palacio

“I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.”

— Eric Roth

“He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And…

— Wong Kar-Wai

“Life is ahead of us. If we spend too much time looking backward, we can’t see where we are going!”

— R.J. Palacio

“The world is a far greater place than I ever imagined. And it is yours.”

— Bryan Charles

“The man with no future, who existed only in the moment, was invisible to a world fixated on anywhere but where they actually were.”

— Matthew Mather

“I see the world in the face of the elderly and the heavens in the face of a child.”

— Bridgette Mongeon

“Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.”

— Gregory Maguire