Past Quotes

My mama always said, “You got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”

Let the past die. Kill it, if you have to. That’s the only way to become what you were meant to be.[to Rey]

We can only judge the future from what we have suffered in the past.

I’ve lived a lot of lives before I met you, Ross. You shouldn’t have gone to all this trouble. I’m done.

You gotta let go of that stuff from the past, ’cause it just doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

The past can haunt a man. That’s what they say. That the past is just a series of moments. Each one perfect. Complete. A bead on the necklace of time. The past doesn’t haunt us. Wouldn’t even recognize us. If there are ghosts to be found, it’s us who haunt the past. We haunt it, so we can look again. See the people we miss, and the things we missed about them.

To change the future, you gotta put your past behind you.

The cause of living in the past is dying right in front of us.

Sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

My past has caught up with me. And… I won’t be back.