I could use a dream or a genie or a wish
To go back to a place much simpler than this
Can't love until you had a loss
I've lost many and I paid the cost
Step myself up and I ain't lookin' back
Life is too short to be stuck in the past
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. And thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Memories, PastGabriel Garcia Marquez in Love in the Time of CholeraSometimes the past is something you just can't let go of. And sometimes the past is something we'll do anything to forget. And sometimes we learn something new about the past that changes everything we know about the present.
PastMeredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy, Season 6 Episode 9The past is like a broken mirror, as you piece it together you cut yourself. Your image keeps shifting and you change with it.
Past, MirrorsMax Payne - 2, by Max PayneI guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.
PastThe Green Mile, by Paul Edgecombe