Leave the past behind Quote by Valerie Martin

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles…

— Cecil Baldwin

“The past is always hiding behind the present, threatening to peek out and drag everything down.”

— Cate Holahan

“Let go of the past because its remembrance will give you pleasure.”

— Jane Austen

“Oh dear, oh dear, I sat there. I am sitting there still. I am old enough to know that time passing is just a…

— Sebastian Barry

“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”

— Robin Hobb

“The past is a black, heavy thing. It will quietly smother our spirits if we let it. You must make peace with it and…

— Sarah McCoy

“The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.”

— Ross Macdonald

“We come here to tell stories so that we can manage the past without being swallowed by it.”

— Nic Pizzolatto

“I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a…

— William Faulkner

“As much as I try to make the past keep still and mind its manners, it moves and murmurs with me through every day.”

— Deborah Levy

“the past never really goes away. It sinks into the walls and whispers at you when you pass.”

— Will Kostakis

“What is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”

— James Conroyd Martin