Looking Back Quotes

514 quotes by 449 authors

There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back. — Sarah Dessen
Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in… — Taylor Swift
Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end… — Iain Banks
But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. — Megan Hart
If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the… — Nicholas Sparks
Almost all the people whoâ€™ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though… — W. Somerset Maugham
When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in… — Jostein Gaarder
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.… — Amy Tan
Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it.… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent,… — D.E. Stevenson
I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I… — Elizabeth Berg
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now… — Charles Frazier
In some ways, I donâ€™t feel as if I had a choice. Looking back at my childhood, even before I could read and write, I… — Shannon Hale
I hear my heartbeat. I have been looking at him too long, but then, he has been looking back, and I feel like we are… — Veronica Roth
The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a… — Jim Butcher
Looking back, I question whether I really loved Nate, or just the security of our relationship. I wonder if my feelings for him didnâ€™t have… — Emily Giffin
Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human… — Simon Pegg
Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now… — Jennifer Egan
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. — Alan Lightman
The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. — Kiran Desai

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