Top 100 Back Again Quotes
#1. Oh, I wish we had the old days back again," exclaimed Jem. "I'd love to be a soldier - a great, triumphant general. I'd give EVERYTHING to see a big battle." Well,
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.
Kelly Barnhill
#3. For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#4. To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1
Michel De Montaigne
#5. Mr. Bellmont raised his calm, determined eye full upon her, and said, in a decisive manner: "You shall not strike, or scald, or skin her, as you call it, if she comes back again. Remember!
Harriet E. Wilson
#6. But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.
Veronica Roth
#7. How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.
Kathe Kollwitz
#8. There's a hope for every woe, and a balm for every pain, but the first joys of our heart come never back again!
Robert Gilfillan
#9. You can't go back again, even if you wanted to. But you can own your own life, mistakes and all.
Ellen Barkin
#10. The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Michael Flanders
#11. The burden she carried was different from yours, and it had worn on her for many years. When I knew her she had forgotten joy, although I believe Arlbeth gave her a little back again.
Robin McKinley
#12. Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.
Jo Nesbo
#13. You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#14. I never know what you're thinking. Sometimes you're so closed off ... like an island slate. You intimidate me. That's why I keep quiet. I don't know which way your mood is going to go. It swings from north to south and back again in a nanosecond.
E.L. James
#15. I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.
Keith Richards
#16. I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
Doris Day
#17. Dammit All To Hell and Back Again!
J.D. Robb
#18. She felt, in fact, very absent from herself. Adrift, as if nothing might bring her back again. Not even tea.
Gail Carriger
#19. I would trade all the stars in the universe if I could just have him back again.
Beth Revis
#20. Let's examine the dog mind: Every time you come home, he thinks it's amazing. He can't believe that you've accomplished this again. You walk in the door. The joy of it almost kills him. "He's back again! It's that guy! It's that guy!"
Jerry Seinfeld
#21. The gears of life had moved ahead a notch with a loud ker-chunk, and Junpei knew that they would never turn back again.
Haruki Murakami
#22. If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.
Pablo Picasso
#23. Going beyond thoughts is merely to reduce the multiplicity of your thought.
Thoughts lead to words, words to language, language to action.
Action to realization, and back again to thoughts.
For the mind is made up of words, language and logic, until it dissolves into consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#24. Outside were the eucalyptus trees, like lace against the sky. If it were only possible to lie against them, light and bodiless, sink into their softness, deeper and deeper, lost in them, buried, never come back again ...
Shirley Jackson
#25. If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper.
Stormie O'martian
#26. Sometimes we credit ourselves with a longing to be in some distant spot, whereas, in truth, we are only longing to have the time back again which we spent there
days when we were younger and fresher than we are now.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#27. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.
Black Elk
#28. I haven't come to the theater to hear about other people's probelms. I've come to be taken out of myself, and, preferably, not put back again.
Michael Frayn
#29. My eyes are open," said Milo warmly, "and I see exactly what I expect to see. I see a man who is terribly wounded - because he has dared to pass through the fires of truth to the other side, which we have never seen. And then he has come back again - to tell us about the other side.
Kurt Vonnegut
#30. I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.
George Jung
#31. One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.
Thomas Bernhard
#32. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.
Laini Taylor
#33. Her gaze shifted from him to Keir and back again, a smile curling one end of her tantalizing lips. "So you're the brotherhood of the fighting toilet cleaners?
Avery Flynn
#34. To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#35. O bluebird, welcome back again, Thy azure coat and ruddy vest, Are hues that April loveth best ...
John Burroughs
#36. Even the homes we leave on purpose, the families we break away from to be ourselves or someone else, call us back again and again, to a place that has long since ceased to be home yet still holds power over us.
Rachel Friedman
#37. In America it's all, 'I'm gonna make something of myself, leave my tiny town and go to L.A!' Canadians are like, 'I'm gonna make something of myself, go to L.A., and then come right back again to hang out with my buddies!'
Evan Goldberg
#38. When you want someone back, but you know they will never ever want you back again.
Unknown
#39. The seasons of nature repeat annually. Spring goes off and comes back again. But for us, humans, the time does not return.
Miyuki Kamezawa
#40. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Randy Alcorn
#41. It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.
Victor Hugo
#42. So is this being in love? I stay with the moment, waiting to find out, the space between us fluctuating with uncertainty. The only thing I am sure of is that each time his lips leave mine they are right back again.
Kea Alwang
#43. She's a gipsy really. That's why she can't stay in houses. She wanders away and comes back again.
Agatha Christie
#44. My parents had told me that I would not really die, not the real me: that nobody really died, when they died; that my kitten and the opal miner had just taken new bodies and would be back again, soon enough.
Neil Gaiman
#45. Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,
whither it flows back again.
John Sterling
#46. For me it was just important to play my game and believe until the end. Even now, Venus is not in the top 10, but you can still feel she can be back again.
Elena Vesnina
#47. You're nervous around me. I don't bite." He turned his head and swept a gaze over her that went from head to toe and back again. "Unless you like that sort of thing.
Robin Bielman
#48. My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback. And then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo.
Chris Hemsworth
#49. Grief was a hell of a thing. Some days you climbed the walls and others you couldn't get out of bed. Just when you thought you might be pulling through, something would punch you in the gut and you'd be flat on your back again.
Brenda Rothert
#50. Jesse finishes paying for his drinks and turns. It takes only half a second, but his eyes burn a trail from my dress's neckline to its hem and back again. "The dress'll do," he says.
Erin Bowman
#51. It's undeserved success that people are so terribly afraid of losing; they know they haven't any way, themselves, of ever getting it back again.
Mary Deasy
#52. The mace prodded
Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.
John Flanagan
#53. She glanced from Tavia to Chase, then back again to Tavia in utter amazement. Now, that's what I call making an entrance.
Lara Adrian
#54. The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
Brendan Behan
#55. Other people's history can be read comfortably, the way a novel can be read comfortably. By my own history? I'm on the run from my own history, and catching my breath in the present. Escapist. But the merciless present pushes us back again toward our history. The mind keeps talking.
Intizar Hussain
#56. Nature seems to welcome defiance of conventions, and to say, with a smile, 'So, the truant has come back again!' ("Absolute Evil")
Julian Hawthorne
#57. Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
#58. Part of the danger of living so long, knowing you were going to come back and back again, was putting off your life until you never lived it at all. Just so it was possible. Just so long as you could, you never actually did. Just so you didn't ruin it.
Ann Brashares
#59. Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again
David Guetta
#60. Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.
Ellen Glasgow
#61. We must go back again and again to the Gospel of Christ crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what He did and who we are in Him.
Timothy Keller
#62. Voldemort come back' (again, there was a collective shudder around the table at the name)
J.K. Rowling
#63. No one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.
Shirley Maclaine
#64. Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the essence to scientific thinking.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#65. I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.
Henri Barbusse
#66. If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.
Will Carleton
#67. I've gone to prepare a place for you
But I will come back again.
Anonymous
#68. sum up Casablanca in just four clipped, declarative sentences: "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back again. Boy gives up girl for humanity's sake.
Noah Isenberg
#69. Must we go in?" asked Margary.
"Yes," said Mary. "We are only given times like these so that we can go back again. Come along." And she parted the trailing branches of the willow and led the way out.
Elizabeth Goudge
#70. I wanted to go back again, to recapture the moment that had gone, and then it came to me that if we did it would not be the same (...)
Daphne Du Maurier
#71. I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.
Andriy Shevchenko
#72. A group of boys lumbered down the halls of Adas Israel, laughing, punching, blood rushing from developing brains to developing genitals and back again in the zero-sum game of puberty.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#73. Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home - my only home.
Charlotte Bronte
#74. But it wasn't just the pace that made them feel suspended, like they were doing little more than drifting. It was the odd feeling that they'd been set loose into the world with nothing - and no on - left to reel them back again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#75. When something's lost I wanna fight to get it back again
Pearl Jam
#76. I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
Rene Burri
#77. Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves.
Bailey Vincent
#78. Only experience can lead you to what it is you want and sometimes, I wish I didn't have so much experience. Now I've got it, I sometimes yearn to have my naivety back again, just so that I didn't know the pain of trying to love someone who can't be loved.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#79. The back again carrying Bilbo, was grabbed from behind in the dark. He shouted
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#81. I really appreciated having the tape-and that song-back again. Even then, it was mainly a nostalgia thing, and today, if I happen to get the tape out and look at it, it brings back memories of that afternoon in Norfolk every bit as much as it does our Hailsham days.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#82. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Oscar Wilde
#83. This was the setting in which the most troubled and most precious days of my life were lived: an abode from which our adventurings flowed out, to flow back again like waves breaking on a lonely headland.
Alain-Fournier
#84. To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one's youth back again?
George Lucas
#85. Sometimes, I get this familiar ache in my heart and a sense of stabbing emptiness around my ribcage. I don't even know what brings it on; it's just familiar like a horrible visitor. What brings me to my knees though, is the even bigger heart-hurt when I recognize this ghastly guest is back again.
Ruby Wax
#86. Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.
David Dinkins
#87. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.
Norman Mailer
#89. Steinbeck wrote about the tide pools and how profoundly they illustrate the interconnectedness of all things, folded together in an ever-expanding universe that's bound by the elastic string of time. He said that one should look from the tide pool to the stars, and then back again in wonder.
Robyn Schneider
#90. I think you can be terribly overexposed. I've been always very careful in my career to do theatre; it takes you out of the television eye, and people are glad to see you back again.
Denholm Elliott
#91. We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.
Christopher Moore
#92. You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.
Henry Ford
#93. People say to me, 'You're so lucky. You get to see the world.' But I don't. I go to the hotel and to the pools and back again. That's it.
Michael Phelps
#94. I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.
Sue Grafton
#95. You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.
William Blake
#96. A squirrel, Ratatosk, lives in the branches of the world-tree. It takes gossip and messages from Nidhogg, the dread corpse-eater, to the eagle and back again. The squirrel tells lies to both of them, and takes joy in provoking anger.
Neil Gaiman
#97. It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?
Robin Hobb
#98. We may overindulge at times, but we then control ourselves and go back to a more moderate diet. There is a mudra that illustrates this situation quite well: "If the animal leaves the flock, I take it back to the flock. If it leaves again, I take it back again." Spiritual
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#99. Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.
Eugene V. Debs
#100. There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.
Frederick Lenz
