Walter de La Mare Quotes

I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.

What better is there to sigh for than happiness, yesterday's or tomorrow's.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.

And what had he wanted? He'd never sat down to think about it. But mostly, he wanted yesterday to be different from today.

Research can trap you into the past.

Yesterday is just a memory.

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

My past is everything I failed to be.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.

I would trade all my tomorrow's for one single yesterday.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

Sometimes nostalgia is a cage.

It's not about being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been.

I cherish the dreams of yesterday and dare not dwell on the err's of my past whose fate has been long decided, and effect I can not change. For the dreams of yesterday are the challenges of today, and the hope for tomorrow.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.