All Quotes By Tag: The-past
“Det förflutna, som är mitt och Johannes Lupigis och andras, börjar lagra upp sig framför mig såsom en framtid, vilken jag skall genomtränga. Det förflutna lagrar på det sättet upp sig framför oss alla. Vi står och trampar i detta och måste genomtränga det för att få kunskap. Vi har genomlevt – eller uppslukat – en del av det och nu måste vi genomtränga och svälja det igen för att bli fria genom kunskapen om hur det var. Så är antagligen kunskapslagen, vägen till erfarenhetens förvärv, har diakonen Anselmus sagt.”
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“Every relationship that has hit a crossroads has asked, “What is it that you want from me?”
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“I can never conceive of yesterday as being anything but behind me.”
“Take a moment in between breaths to let yourself see what’s left to be seen, all the places you’ve been. Your old haunts. I pass by them every day, and after all these years I’ll find myself wondering if they’re just facades, like the saloon fronts and gun shops of an old ghost town set. As if I can poke my head inside the doors in the light of day and see nothing but framed out rooms and sandy floors, existing for no other reason than to give structure to who I used to be.”
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“The past may or may not be a foreign country. It may morph or lie still, but its capital is always Regret, and what flushes through it is the grand canal of unfledged desires that feed into an archipelago of tiny might-have-beens that never really happened but aren’t unreal for not happening and might still happen though we fear they never will. And I thought of Ole Brit holding back so much, as we all do when we look back to see that the roads we’ve left behind or not taken have all but vanished. Regret is how we hope to back into our real lives once we find the will, the blind drive and courage, to trade in the life we’re given for the life that bears our name and ours only. Regret is how we look forward to things we’ve long lost yet never really had. Regret is hope without conviction, I said. We’re torn between regret, which is the price to pay for things not done, and remorse, which is the cost for having done them. Between one and the other, time plays all its cozy little tricks.”
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“-A mund të shlyhet e kalumja?-Unë mendoj që po. Çdo varr mund të shërohet, nëqoftëse njeriu gjen barin përkatës.”
“-A mund të shlyhet e kalumja?-Unë mendoj që po. Çdo varrë mund të shërohet, nëqoftëse njeriu gjen barin përkatës.”
“There is a deep foundation of my being which knows not of time and change and is still and ever with Hartley, in that good place where we once were.”
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“Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.”
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“It didn’t hurt me. Not “hurt”. Hurt is a four letter word. It’s short, almost cute sounding. Aawwww, did that hurt? No. It didn’t hurt. Destroyed, Obliterated, Desecrated, Annihilated, Demolished, Shattered, or Demoralised maybe… But no. It didn’t hurt me. It didn’t “hurt” me at all.”
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“I had always wanted to hear those words.I had always wanted to be your girl.”
“I still think of you every day.But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.”
“For you are you, and I am I, and once we were we… but as long as I exist and so do you – know that I will always love you.”
“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
“You can miss places. You can miss people.Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back.They’re not the same.You’re not the same.The loss of them changed you.”