Dark Backward Quotes

#1. What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?

William Shakespeare

#2. Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#3. A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

Nathaniel Branden

#4. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

Anasazi Foundation

#5. The divorce papers remained unopened in the crisp yellow envelope. He had thrown it on his desk without a backward glance. Between his lashes, his dark chocolate eyes burned with fury but there was something else in the depths that she hadn't seen in a long time, passion.

Suzan Battah

#6. What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Jessica Hahn

#7. High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

Thomas Kinkade

#8. The moment anyone begins making calculations or comparisons, they cease to live for the moment: the present becomes a mere pointer to the future, and all sorts of questions tend to arise.

Simone De Beauvoir

#9. Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

#10. The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

Stephen Vizinczey

#11. We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

#12. It was a chef's knife," I said, holding my hands about a foot apart. "And a very large one."
"That's what she said," Ethan murmured.

Chloe Neill

#13. For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

Dean Koontz

#14. A Permeable Life is about what presses out from the heart, what comes in at a slant and what shimmers below the surface of things. To live permeably is to be open-hearted and audacious, to risk showing up as our truest self, and embracing a willingness to be astonished.

Carrie Newcomer

#15. Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#16. It has long seemed ridiculous to me to suppose that the nature of things has been so poor and stingy that it provided souls only to such a trifling mass of bodies on our globe, like human bodies, when it could have given them to all, without interfering with its other ends.

Gottfried Leibniz