25+ Leave My Past Behind Quotes. Living in the past not only makes things harder for you to deal with, it also affects you mentally. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; A woman never knows when to say it." "bad things do happen; Reflections of the past keep on haunting us. I know it's not easy but still it can be tried. 26 leave the past behind quotes sometimes hard experiences of life make it impossible to move on. There was no defined middle or beginning or end. Wise people always recommend such people to learn to move on and leave the past behind. The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. "a man never knows how to say goodbye;