Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish to… — Gloria Whelan
I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. — Kim Harrison
And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to… — Lauren Oliver
Hello?â€ I peered into the shadows. Two green circles flashed in the dark. I yelped, jumping backward and pressing myself against the wall. â€œAnd may… — Mira Grant
I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For… — Suzanne Collins
Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were… — Jodi Picoult
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward. — Frances Mayes
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that… — Abraham Verghese
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. — E E Cummings
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. — Kurt Vonnegut
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward. — Alice Hoffman
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but… — Anne Rice
Jamie chose that moment to almost fall down the stairs. Mae took his whole weight and grabbed the banister. Seb reached out but Jamie shied… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except… — Stephen Levine
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum… — C.S. Lewis
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. — Charles Yu
We are the owls of the weather chaw. We take it blistering, We take it all. Roiling boiling gusts, We're the owls with the guts.… — Kathryn Lasky
This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward. — Stephen King

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