Tom Stoppard Quotes

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I won't cling to the past.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Don't think about what you've left behind.

The dream is over. I gotta get down to reality. The good old days is garbage.

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

We can never go back.

The past is a closed door.

When you must choose a new path, do not bring old experiences with you. Those who strike out afresh, but who attempt to retain a little of the old life, end up torn apart by their own memories.

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

The past is not a package one can lay away.

It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I never hanker after the past - I prefer to devote myself to new tasks.