Eve Arnold Quotes

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

I could have given more and I'm sorry about how it all ended, but I still look back on my time in Germany positively.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

When you're going over periods of your life, you remember certain things, certain events, certain people that you've forgotten. You've forgotten certain lessons or people you were very close to, and then you haven't seen them in a while. I think if you can go through life with the correct regrets, then looking back on it, like I did, a certain portion of my life is pretty enjoyable. All my regrets are ones that I'd like to keep.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

We all have relationships - I've had relationships in my past, and I don't look back on them and think, 'That was a mistake.'

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow's a mystery.

I think if I look back too much, I can't move forward.

Most older people don't talk about the past so they won't have to admit that their life ran on the wrong rail.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

Sitting on the floor, I'd replay the past in my head. Funny, that's all I did, day after day after day for half a year, and I never tired of it. What I'd been through seemed so vast, with so many facets. Vast, but real, very real, which was why the experience persisted in towering before me, like a monument lit up at night. And the thing was, it was a monument to me.

Don't look back, you can never look back

The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

We all have appointments with the past.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.