I Can't Go Back Quotes

#1. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#2. I can't go back because I lost all my Soul Reaper powers! - Rukia
You lost your powers? What are they, socks? - Ichigo

Tite Kubo

#3. I can't go back and change the hands of time but what I can do is create a new legacy.

Eric Thomas

#4. I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

Andy Goldsworthy

#5. Ah, don't let us undo what you've done!' she cried. 'I can't go back now to that other way of thinking. I can't love you unless I give you up.

Edith Wharton

#6. If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means.

C.J. Roberts

#7. You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Christine Feehan

#8. I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.

Katrina Kaif

#9. I'm like a shooting star! I've come so far! I can't go back to where I used to be!

Princess Jasmine

#10. You can't write the same book twice. Though I've been in historical musical situations, I can't go back and do that again. And though I run into artistic crises, they keep my life interesting.

Max Roach

#11. I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come.

Alex Flinn

#12. My passion for the game comes from the city of Marseille itself. Unfortunately I can't go back there as much I want to because I play a lot here and abroad.

Zinedine Zidane

#13. Prison... it changes you. I'm not the same man I was before going on the inside. I can't go back. I won't." "You were in prison less than twenty-minutes.

C.T. Phipps

#14. I can't go back, Lane. I'm sorry. I just can't."
He fell silent. And then after a long while, he nodded. "All right, but can I ask you for one thing?"
No. "Yes."
"Just don't hate me anymore. I'm doing plenty of that on my own time.

J.R. Ward

#15. I can't go back to what we had in childhood. I can't relive those times, retrace my tracks and undo what's been done. It's not like writing a book and rewriting the ending to make it happier.

Patti Callahan Henry

#16. Please,' Neil shook the stinging fluid out of his eyes. Don't beg. You'll appear weak DO NOT BEG. 'Please, I'm begging you. Don't take my bike. It's all I have left and I ... I ...' he looked behind him in the direction of the city, 'I can't go back.

Teresa Schulz

#17. If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

David Mamet

#18. I don't regret anything. Every scar, every memory, has made me who I am. Without the pain, I wouldn't have learned, or grown. I can't go back to who I was." Anna

Kyle West

#19. I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Lasse Hallstrom

#20. But I can't go back. I can only explore today and enjoy it as I move forward.

Roland Byrd

#21. I can't go back, and neither can you. We both have to move forward and find what beauty we can in the world as it is." Daniel

Elise Kova

#22. Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

Geena Davis

#23. I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Vanilla Ice

#24. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Malorie Blackman

#25. I can't go back to who I was before the war," he eventually said. "And I can't be who I was during the war. And if I'm not either of those men, I'm not sure what I'm left with.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - Anne Shirley

L.M. Montgomery

#27. I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing.

Willa Cather

#28. I sometimes get short-tempered in a public situation because I think, Oh God, I can't go back over that again. I can't put that into a two-word answer. I can't. Wherever I go, people say, "Can I ask you a quick question?" It's always, "a quick question." Well, my answers are slow.

James Hillman

#29. I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over.

David Sylvian

#30. You've become a fire within me." He pressed her palm to the center of his chest. "Right here. Bringing light to places I never knew were in shadow." His breath shuddered out of him. "I can't go back to the darkness, Fiona." Suza Kates, Chosen Blood

Suza Kates

#31. With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.

Agnes Obel

#32. I can't go back there. Back to a time when I had a weakness. When I lost control, and lost loved ones and territories in the process. The WUN still remains out of my hands. If I woke her now, what would I lose next?

Laura Thalassa

#33. I can't go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.

Jessica Sorensen

#34. That's the problem. I wasn't happy. I was hiding. I knew it. My therapist knew it. I wasn't going to ever be happy until I went back to doing what I was good at. And since I can't go back into law enforcement, why not go into the private sector. Gideon's call came at the right moment.

Mercy Celeste

#35. I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ...

Frank McCourt

#36. I can't go back and change the already done actions but what i can do is to create a new legislation

Ahmed Gamal Abdel Gawad

#37. I can't go back to yesterday because I was someone else then.

Cameron Jace

#38. I can't go back," said Towser.
"Nor I," said Fowler.
"They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser.
"And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.

Clifford D. Simak

#39. I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Stephen Chbosky

#40. Go back," he said.
"Can't. Stand aside?"
"Can't."
"So it's like that?" I said.
Fix exhaled. Then he nodded. "Yeah."
And for the first time in a decade the Winter Knight and Summer Knight went to war.

Jim Butcher

#41. Cause we lost it all
Nothing lasts forever
I'm sorry I can't be perfect
Now it's just too late
And we can't go back
I'm sorry I can't be perfect

Simple Plan

#42. Go and don't come back, you can take the catmint. I have no quarrel with ThunderClan; I don't want to see cats suffer, whatever you might think. Just be careful you don't end up like a bully like your kin, Tigerstar.

Erin Hunter

#43. I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.

Samantha Isler

#44. If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Emmy Rossum

#45. Now you're here and everything's changing
Suddenly life means so much
I can't wait to wake up tomorrow
And find out this promise is true
I will never have to go back to
The day before you

Rascal Flatts

#46. Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Jimmy Buffett

#47. I remember when replay first came to TV. I can't remember who it was now, but a manager came out to beef about a call, and I ran him. He said he was going back into the clubhouse and watch replay. I told him, 'Go ahead. I am the replay.'

Doug Harvey

#48. I still say I would love to go back to acting, but after my kids are older. You can't just drop everything and go out on a call and keep a stable life.

Suzanne Crough

#49. It's been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can't believe I was that guy. And I would not go back, I would not trade the way I am now for anything.

Brett Favre

#50. I can't talk about every single film I made. It's not my way to go back into the past and to look at my old pictures and to discuss them.

Otto Preminger

#51. I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

Megan Miranda

#52. You aren't happy," Estela says.
"I can't be happy," I say.
"Look at me, Kenzie."
"I'm looking at you, Estela."
"Do you know your own heart?"
"I don't know anything."
"Go," she says, "and think. And don't come back until you know.

Beth Kephart

#53. You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Charles Kuralt

#54. We can go forward or we can go back, and even though I'm scared as hell, I don't want to go back.

Katie McGarry

#55. You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Viggo Mortensen

#56. Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can't go back," I said. I looked over at Perry. "Ain't that right, kiddo?

Karina Halle

#57. I had to find a diet that would kick me back into dating shape, because I know that I can't date at size 8. I have to date at size 2. And it's just a fact of nature. Go get your injections and your chemical peels. You gotta look good to attract a man.

Patti Stanger

#58. I don't trust novels with points, do you? If a novel is only about a point, the writer should just say it in as few words as possible so we can take it in and go back to watching 'The Bachelor' on television.

William Lashner

#59. I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Orlando Bloom

#60. I don't think I can ever go back to cocoa!

Bobby Hill

#61. I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.

Jason Falkner

#62. I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I get excited by the spark of an idea, and if I can't go make that, there's another idea that comes along that I get excited about. It has to happen quickly, in order for it to happen, at all.

Joe Swanberg

#63. Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every 'Idol' winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

Kara DioGuardi

#64. I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that.

Justin Vernon

#65. I wasn't into blame. Maybe because I had so much of it directed at me, you know? I guess you can go one of two ways with that. You can reflect it right back out at everybody else, or you can drop out of the whole blame paradigm. I guess I chose not to play the game anymore.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#66. Everything is not going to go right, not just on the field but also in business. There were times I was injured on the field and could not play for a year or more. It was easy to quit and say, "I can't do it anymore." It taught me I can bounce back. It's the same in business.

Shawne Merriman

#67. You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. "From where I'm standing, you're the best step I ever took.

J.D. Robb

#68. When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#69. We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

Chris Lowe

#70. In the beginning, yes I did go back ... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit

Lil' Kim

#71. One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

Julie Taymor

#72. I can't run forever. I decided to go back to school for my degree, because I know now there's more to life than track.

Evelyn Ashford

#73. I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.

Maya Banks

#74. Why can't you go back to playing princess?" "I never played princess." "Are you kidding?" he says. "Whenever Heather's mom took the two of you to the parade, you wore your fanciest dress, pretending to be the Winter Queen." "Exactly!" I say. "Queen, not princess. You raised me better than that.

Jay Asher

#75. I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

Barack Obama

#76. I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.

Jimi Hendrix

#77. Oh, help!" said Pooh. "I'd better go back."
"Oh, bother!" said Pooh. "I shall have to go on."
"I can't do either!" said Pooh. "Oh, help and bother!

Milne, A. A.

#78. For me, a record is valid when I actually hold the vinyl. Like, I've worked on the art for a while and I see the vinyl and I go "Ooh, it's an actual LP. How cool is that?" That's very sacred to me. You can't take that back, you know?

Ryan Adams

#79. You might not think you're an early-morning person. I didn't think I was either. But once you get used to it, you might never want to go back. You can accomplish more by the time other people wake up than most people accomplish all day.

Scott Adams

#80. No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.

Wyclef Jean

#81. I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

Dana Spiotta

#82. In America when someone asks me my nationality, I can't just say American. I have to go back generations, elaborate on there in Europe my ancestors were from. But here, I can just say it, Je suis Americaine. It feels good.

Bridget Asher

#83. I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.

Melissa McCarthy

#84. There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#85. But once you know, you can't go back. Not really. You can carve out someone's memories, but they won't be who they were before. They'll just be full of holes. Given the choice, I'd rather learn to live with what I know.

Victoria Schwab

#86. When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.

Jon Fishman

#87. I am open to doing anything. I don't think in this day and age that, aside from two or three people, there isn't an actor who can just do one thing. I also think you can go back and forth between film and television pretty seamlessly.

Adam Pally

#88. At breakfast one Saturday I decided to tell Hank my desire to go back to work. He explodes, 'What can you do? You can't make enough to buy your own Kotex

Martha Lemasters

#89. I would, but I can't. Like a cord between us, it binds me to you. where you go, i must follow. if you go to far, i am compelled to search for you until i find you. if i try to run, i would freeze in my steps and be made to turn back.

Alexia Purdy

#90. I've got a great dislike of reunions. It's a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can't do it. Nothing is ever the same.

Eric Burdon

#91. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.

Sarah Dessen

#92. I like how you can go back and watch David Lean and John Ford and see the influence that had on Steven Spielberg, especially David Lean, in the camerawork, and yet, you don't watch any Spielberg movie and think of David Lean. Once you're looking for it, you see it all, but it's not in your face.

Colin Trevorrow

#93. It's okay, we can go back from this. It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything.

Courtney Summers

#94. Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.

Cecelia Ahern

#95. There's a lot of actors that I admire because they can just switch one second into the character. Then, they go back to jokes, and then they're doing something really dramatic. I can't do that. I have to really focus.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

#96. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.

Rebecca McNutt

#97. I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Hugh Laurie

#98. I have so few choices, really, if I can't get myself back home. Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go out far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realize that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything.

Gregory Maguire

#99. The prices are ridiculous ... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

Dorothy Thompson

#100. Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.

Paul Auster