Past Quote by Italo Calvino

“Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.”

— Brandon Cella

“When I look back, it's easy to see how one thing led to the next, and how every moment of my life happened for…

— Ricky Martin

“Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never…

— Anonymous

“... because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.”

— Steve Martin

“My past was and is who I am. What I am. You can’t just forget the very thing that molded you and gave you…

— Autumn Grey

“How utterly our past suffuses us. We live in all our days at once.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“All we really want is to get to the point where the past can explain nothing about us and we can get on with…

— Richard Ford

“I often think, what if one were to begin life over again, knowing what one is about! If one life, which has been already…

— Anton Chekhov

“You carry the past with you. Even if there's a before, and an after, in your life. It's still the same life. The trick…

— Jennifer Finney Boylan

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

— Veronica Larsen

“There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell…

— Yovanoff, Brenna

“We live, and then forgetting -- we live yet again. Sometimes, the consequences of the past follow us across many lives.”

— Daniel H. Wilson