Buried Past Quotes

#1. Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.

Walter Benjamin

#2. I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse or regret. I had no past and would probably have no future; I was buried alive in a void which was the wound that had been dealt me. I was like the wound itself.

Henry Miller

#3. The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

Raquel Cepeda

#4. Not everything buried is actually dead. For many, the past is alive.

Louise Penny

#5. Baptism was to put a line of demarcation between your past sins when you are buried with Him by Baptism-you are burying your past sins-eradicating them-putting a line in the sand saying that old man is dead and he is no longer alive any more and I rise up to walk in the newness of life.

T.D. Jakes

#6. The past is dead and buried. But I know now that buried things have a way of rising to the surface when one least expects them to.

Dan Simmons

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

Neil Young

#8. And that when he was past work he should be shot and buried.

Anna Sewell

#9. Could we dig up this long-buried treasure, Were it worth the pleasure, We never could learn love's song, We are parted too long. Could the passionate past that is fled Call back its dead, Could we live it all over again, Were it worth the pain!

Oscar Wilde

#10. I'm quite happy for my voice to be pushed up, whereas in the past I wanted it buried with the guitars, or part of the band, not like I was thinking of myself as 'the singer'.

Roddy Woomble

#11. It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.

Lauren Oliver

#12. A song rises up from the belly of my past
and rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.

Brenda Sutton Rose

#13. Our connection didn't have the bandwidth to sustain the pain buried far enough in our past to cause the grind of our present. His past belonged to her, even though she'd cut the line, taking it with her, tugging at him, leaving no one else for him to give it to.

C.D. Reiss

#14. The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.

Catherine Cookson

#15. The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.

Geoffrey Elton

#16. But I can't force myself to remember my hidden past or purposefully unravel the mystery of my heart. Secrets are usually buried for a reason.

Siobhan Davis

#17. I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored.

D.C. Hubbard

#18. Instead, the act of going back made new memories, and everytime I went I would add another layer on top of her memory, until eventually I'd buried them completely and all of those places stopped being about my past with her and became my present.

Cecelia Ahern

#19. I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.

Andrea Portes

#20. We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe

John Updike

#21. Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.

Preeti Shenoy

#22. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried ... Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ ... In cases of marriage and family, ... we can end up destroying so many others.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#23. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .

James Rollins

#24. But some days, he looked as if he'd been up all night drinking, hung over with whatever he'd done in his past, buried beneath guilt and disgrace.

Pepper Winters

#25. Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

Ann Aguirre

#26. People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.

Steve Berry

#27. What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Susan Griffin

#28. But in terms of "psychological" time, most of us are still living in centuries past, stirred by ancient grudges, controlled by obsolete prejudices, driven by buried fears.

Sydney J. Harris

#29. We have history. That has weight. It has meaning. And you of all people know that just because something is in the past doesn't mean it's dead and buried.

Melanie Harlow

#30. I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#31. You can't put the past behind you. It's buried in you; it's turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

Claudia Rankine

#32. Half of the future is buried in the past. That was the prevailing Service culture. Hence

Mick Herron

#33. One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we'll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other's chest, and watch each other like stars we don't know are dead.

Zachary Schomburg

#34. It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn't know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.

V.E Schwab

#35. Group of Steiners and Liesel walked past some shop windows and the imposing town hall, which in later years would be chopped off at the knees and buried.

Markus Zusak

#36. The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of nonsense.

Douglas Adams

#37. Bill Clinton is the only ex-president who hasn't planned his own funeral. But, in his defense, in the past he has said he wants to be buried next to Hillary. I guess he figures he never slept next to her when they were alive, might as well try it now that they're dead.

Jay Leno