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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

— Edna Ferber

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you have a chain around your neck, you have to keep your head down and try to accept your fate without succumbing entirely to humiliation, without forgetting who you are.

— Ingrid Betancourt

For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.

— The Edge

I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.

— Phil Anselmo

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

— Tamara Ecclestone

The only reason I look back is to check if I've been doing something wrong. I look at things from even three years ago and think, 'I wouldn't do that now.' Your life changes.

— Stewart Lee

My life is not just about the past.

— Jeannette Walls

I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

— Steve Earle

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

— Tom Stoppard

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

— Danica Patrick

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.

— Charles Frazier