30 Past Quotes That Accepting and Overcoming the Past

Past Quotes. Deeply insightful, touching on the importance of releasing the past to fully embrace the present and future. Each one offers a reminder of how holding onto past pain or regret can hinder growth and happiness.

Past Quotes

1. “It’s okay to look back at your past. Just don’t stare.” Benjamin Dover

2. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.” Will Rogers

3. “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.” L. Ron Hubbard

4. “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” Bill Keane

5. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” Rick Warren

6. “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” Mercedes Lackey

7. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.” Haruki Murakami

8. “The one charm of the past is that it is the past.” Oscar Wilde

9. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll

10. “Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” C.S. Lewis

11. “Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” Oscar Wilde

12. “People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.” Chuck Palahniuk

13. “They say miracles are past.” William Shakespeare

14. “The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” Wendell Berry

15. “Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There’s nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.” Rachel Boston

16. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” Dan Brown

17. “The past is never where you think you left it.” Katherine Anne Porter

18. “My past is everything I failed to be.” Fernando Pessoa

19. “I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I’m actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.” Drew Barrymore

20. “The past is always judged by the present.” Neith Boyce

21. “The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” Barbara De Angelis

22. “Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” Robin Sharma

23. “Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.” Joyce Meyer 

24. “I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.” Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

25. “The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Albert Einstein

26. “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.” Oscar Wilde

27. “Consider the past and you shall know the future.” Chinese Proverb

28. “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” Winston Churchill

29. “The past has no power over the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle

30. “Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.” Sarah Dessen