Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might…

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

— Burt Lancaster

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people…

— Ann Landers

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

— Dan Simmons

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!I am so weary of toil and of tears,-Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!Take them, and…

— Elizabeth Chase Allen

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

— Stephen King

“Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER”

— Lori Wilde

“Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make…

— Carol Shields

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations…

— Martha Beck

“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.”

— Walter Kirn

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right,…

— Bob Odenkirk

Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.

— Anonymous

“Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out. This whole night has been…

— Gayle Forman

“Thus the thoughtless drift backward toward slavery.”

— Carter G. Woodson

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." from CUTTING FOR STONE”

— Abraham Verghese