Going Back Quotes
451 quotes by 403 authors
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Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
— Ram Dass
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...crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
— Jim Crace
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Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!
— Lewis Carroll
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This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Going back to something is harder than you think.
— Mitch Albom
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As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways…
— Richard Kadrey
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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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It's like going back to being a child again. Someone to bathe you. Someone to lift you. Someone to wipe you. We all know how…
— Mitch Albom
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The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture…
— P.D. James
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He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb…
— Jack London
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Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!
— Virginia Woolf
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I had always assumed we had an unspoken understanding about these things: that she didn't really mean I was a failure, and I really meant…
— Amy Tan
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Going back after a long time will make you made, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East…
— Zadie Smith
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Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,†he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work…
— Anthony Horowitz
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Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is…
— Julio Cortazar
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I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.
— Nick Bantock
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I just wondered where you —†Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.†“Just thought you’d come nosing around, did you?†Harry…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere
— Gary Soto
Who Wrote These Going Back Quotes
403 authors contributed a total of 451 Going Back Quotes, led by these top contributors: