Emily Dickinson Quotes

I am interested in the past. Perhaps one of the reasons is we cannot make, cannot change the past. I mean you can hardly unmake the present. But the past after all is merely to say a memory, a dream. You know my own past seems continually changed when I am remembering it, or reading things that are interesting to me.

Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need.

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

In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

The past is another planet.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

Call us the future from your past.

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama.

I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it.

We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.

I watch these old films in black and white, and suddenly the door opens, and there I am. The other day, I was wearing the most awful hat.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

There is a sense of melancholy attached to seeing images of yourself from a different era, especially when you see a picture.

I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.

Nostalgia is not a place to live.

I do enjoy thinking about the past.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.