Dwelling on the past Quote by Paul Mathews

“There wasn't any point in dwelling in the pain of the past, not when the future could hold suck pleasure.”

— Abraham Verghese

“The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.”

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“There was far too much interest in the past, she thought. People were forever digging up events that had taken place a long time…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“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 past has no belongings. The past does not obligingly absorb what is not wanted.”

— William Trevor

“We do not live in the past, but the past in us.”

— Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

“People cahnge, but the past doen't.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see…

— Robert Jordan

“The past is a place we can visit but cannot live there.”

— Sam Izad

“The past is something we can neither hold on to nor move entirely beyond.”

— Julian Barnes

“There is no point in thinking of what could've been; no point in belaboring the past.”

— Christine Fonseca

“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.”

— Hyeonseo Lee