Arrows Quote by Lucy Grealy

Time's arrow, we are told, is a one-way thing. . . Memory's arrow, like the needle of a compass too close to a lodestone,…

— Russell Hoban

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love…

— Sharon Shinn

I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.

— Michelle Moran

Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

— Charles Yu

It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling. Each of…

— Eudora Welty

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

— Julian Barbour

We live life looking forward and only understand it fully looking backward.

— Anonymous

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

— William Landay

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

— Marshall McLuhan

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past…

— Stephen Hawking

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

— Brian Chesky