Flow-of-time Quote by Karen Essex

“Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back.”

— Suzanne Woods Fisher

“Time doesn't only flow forward; it also flows backward.”

— Joey Lawsin

“She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of…

— Richard Peck

“I mused that time is not only a river, but a river that constantly breaks its banks so you must flee from it as…

— Jens Christian Grøndahl

“Time was moving backward, it seemed, and the future was mostly forgotten.”

— Ann Brashares

“Time is construct, in relativity every thing flows, no past or present, only the now.”

— Kate Atkinson

“Time did not exist; I had no idea of how many minutes had passed. And what was time but merely a wind that never…

— Tan Twan Eng

“Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that require us to make decisions. We can’t stop our movement…

— Ray Dalio

“It turns out that you can't predict the past either. Time moves in both directions -forward and backward- and what happens here and now…

— Nicola Yoon

“Who knows what's for true once a time is past? There's no way to prove how something was that's gone. And if a time…

— Jo Dereske

“How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?”

— Flannery O'Connor

“Time doesn't go backwards, it only moves forward and no matter how much we wish it were different we can’t change anything.”

— Francette Phal