My Past – Quotes

I write with my

I write with my past, about the future, for the present Eyedea

I couldn’t wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she’s actually the key to my future. Emily Procter

I WAS a mermaid

I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don’t know why I’m obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids. Ella Henderson

Judaism had absolutely nothing

Judaism had absolutely nothing to do with my past marriage to Mike [Todd] or my upcoming marriage to Eddie Fisher, both of whom were Jewish. It was something I had wanted to do for a long time. Elizabeth Taylor

Books, books, books! I

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,–where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that … Read more

Oh, it is not

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. Elie Wiesel

I don\\’t want my

I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future. Elie Wiesel

When I look back

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every … Read more

I\’m trying to listen

I’m trying to listen to my past, listen to what’s most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world – to listen to that world, to search. Frederick Buechner

The humiliation I go

The humiliation I go through/when I think of my past/can only be described as grace./We are created by being destroyed. Franz Wright