It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Dave Pelzer

Tags: past healing survivor overcoming-past-weaknesses

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If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.

Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

Tags: past

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If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Mercedes Lackey

Tags: past regret

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I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

Raymond Carver

Tags: past love memory distraction intimacy

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The frontier will nevertheless survive in the attitudes a few of us inherited from it. One of those attitudes--to me a beatitude--is the conviction that the past matters, that history weighs on us and refuses to be forgotten by us, and that the worst poverty women--or men--can suffer is to be bereft of their past.

Shirley Abbott

Tags: past history

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I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.
I know you didn't.
I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.
I know it. There's hard lessons in this world.
What's the hardest?
I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
Yessir.

Cormac McCarthy

Tags: past loss lessons finality

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I often laughed, and you often gave me a dissatisfied look, till you pressed me to unfold my past before you as if it were a roll of pictures. It was then I felt respect for you. Because you unreservedly showed me your resolution to catch something alive in my being, and to sip the warm blood running in my body, by cutting my heart. At that time, I was still living, and did not want to die. So I rejected your request, promising to satisfy you some day. Now I am going to destroy my heart myself, and pour my blood into your veins. I shall be happy if a new life can enter into your bosom, when my heart has stopped beating.

Natsume Sōseki

Tags: past

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Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;
Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;
Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams.

Christina Rossetti

Tags: art past love change hope longing was

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The past beats inside me like a second heart.

John Banville

Tags: past memories

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People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to have existed in some distant past.

Gloria Whelan

Tags: past future living

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