Commonplace Quote by Philip Roth

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

— Anonymous

Keep out of the past. It is haunted.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The past is a ghost that haunts you from the moment it exists, until the moment you don't.

— Melchor Lim

“When we feel haunted, it is the pull of our own home we're experiencing, but a more upsetting possibility is that the past has…

— Yiyun Li

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

— Tabitha King

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“There are many ways to be haunted, not all of them supernatural. From photo album to love letters, the memory of bad choices, broken…

— Tonya Hurley

The past does not haunt us. We haunt the past. We allow our minds to focus in that direction. We open memories and examine…

— Augusten Burroughs

The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

— Cressida Cowell

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

— Augusten Burroughs

Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?

— Brian K. Vaughan