I Wish I Could Go Back Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

Maria Callas

#3. Sometimes I wish I could go back through time to meet Proust, just so I could give him my asthma inhaler. The poor guy.

Rebecca Makkai

#4. There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices ... But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Libba Bray

#5. Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice

Drake

#6. I sit just looking back at our lives.
I wish I could go back in the time.
To make up for all that I did wrong.
To make our own beautiful song.

Dreamer

#7. I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. I wish we'd never got divorced. He and I both wish we'd never got divorced, but we did. I wish I could go back and be the bride again, but I can't.

Sarah Ferguson

#9. Why do you believe in God?" the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don't remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could go back and answer her again. "Because HE believes in me," I would say. Isn't that enough?

Donna VanLiere

#10. In the final seconds before sleep, I wish I could go back and undo everything, give those little girls another chance.

Emily Giffin

#11. I will never regret being with you, Syd. Never. And I wish I could go back and relive those hours. I wish I could go back in time, and instead of hooking up with some chick, I'd man up and tell you how I really felt for you, how I've always felt for you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

Cara Delevingne

#13. I wish that photographs were physical spaces, like tunnels; that you could crawl inside them and go back.

Lauren Oliver

#14. As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.

David Mitchell

#15. The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.

Kate McGahan

#16. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to Florida and, like, date my home-town boyfriend. It's really frustrating whenever I can't go and do something because I know it's going to be on the internet.

Ashley Greene

#17. I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#18. If Uncle Monty had known known what bad luck was soon to come, he wouldn't have wasted a moment thinking about Gustav. I wish - and I'm sure you wish as well - we could go back in time and warn him, but we can't, and that's that.

Lemony Snicket

#19. Sometimes, when I look back over my life," said Hannah sadly, "I do not think of all the people who harmed me, but quite often of all the kindnesses and wish I could go back and say 'thank you' properly." She

Marion Chesney

#20. In terms of effect on the world, it's very good that I've lived. And so I guess, if I could go back in time and prevent my birth, I wouldn't do it. But I sure wish I hadn't had so much pain.

Richard Stallman

#21. He sat back in the seat and looked over at her. "I wish you'd go away," he whispered, "so that we could finally talk.

Rainbow Rowell

#22. I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.

Elizabeth Wein

#23. I can't change the past, Tate. I wish I could, because I'd go back and relive every day that I existed without you, and I'd make sure that you smiled." My eyes burned with regret, and I saw the pools in her beautiful blues, too. "Every minute of my future belongs to you.

Penelope Douglas

#24. I wish that things could go back to the way they were between us. That you could be you and I could be me, and we'd have fun with each other, and it would be a really sweet first romance that I'll remember my whole life.

Jenny Han

#25. I wish we could go back in time and climb trees together again. I love you, Vera. I always will.

A.S. King

#26. Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.

Pascal Mercier

#27. I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast.

Robert Rodriguez

#28. I always wish I could go back and see the people that I love as children.

Rachel McAdams

#29. The moment. I think back on it. A lot. It's like revisiting a favorite place. A place you wish you could go to again. But I can't because that place doesn't exist anymore, except in my memory.

D.J. MacHale

#30. Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again.

Miranda Cosgrove

#31. It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Lauren Oliver

#32. But I'll tell you what I do wish. Wish we could live twice, take a different path each time. That at the end of all this, when I finished serving God in the West, I could go back to that day on the beach, put a ring on Eleanor's finger instead.

Blake Crouch

#33. The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Katy Perry