Khaled Hosseini Quotes

I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

An unresolved past erodes beauty in the present.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.

Without anyone's help, Darth Maul will only commit himself to his mistakes of the past. Every time we find this character, he is living in the past and in some cases he is living with the dead. This character is desperate and he needs Obi-Wan's help to move on.

You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.

It's hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I've learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?

We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.