Top 100 Life Back Quotes
#1. My dear, dear girl [ ... ] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when our lungs were sound, our blood hot, our bodies young. We are a flash of fire
a brain, a heart, a spirit. And we are three-cents-worth of lime and iron
which we cannot get back.
Thomas Wolfe
#2. I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
Harvey Martin
#3. I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.
Mark Fuhrman
#4. The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.
Anne Lamott
#5. Talking to the animals? Is that really how you want to start your day?"
"Manny was helping me get my life back on track. We're discussing life goals and career choices."
Maya held up her hands. "Not before coffee, I beg you.
Susan Mallery
#6. Own me, fill me, break me, repair me, complete me. Do whatever you want to me. Just stay with me. I need you. I need to be able to live. I need my life back, I need you back.
Mia Asher
#7. Tell him I said that he will know when he's my age that books aren't written on whims or old promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writing's a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.
Richard Bach
#8. Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.
Lynn Austin
#9. Summoning gratitude is a sure way to get our life back on track. Opening our eyes to affirm gratitude grows the garden of our inner abundance, just as standing close to a fire eventually warms our heart.
Alexandra Katehakis
#10. Sometimes pain stacked up, its weight crushing. Lifting it off to put life back together felt impossible.
Lisa Harris
#11. The very first thing you need to do to get your life back, heal your past or excel in your future is to suspend certain beliefs.
Tanja Diamond
#12. He wanted his old life back instead of this new hell on earth that he had created for himself.
Valenciya Lyons
#13. Divorce is brutal and horrible and ... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.
Jane Kaczmarek
#14. There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.
Marilyn Johnson
#15. BP CEO Tony Hayward said recently, 'No one wants this thing over more than I do. I'd like my life back.' Tony, I'm so sorry you had your summer disrupted. I'd buy you a drink, but you'd probably spill that too and make me clean it up.
Craig Ferguson
#16. I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together ... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.
Denis Johnson
#17. Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.
Bucky Sinister
#18. You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.
Marya Hornbacher
#19. I love you," she says.
"I love you," I say.
And then we hang up, because nothing else needs to be said after that.
I want to give Zara her life back. Even if I feel I deserve something like this, I don't deserve it at her expense.
David Levithan
#20. I was sitting in a white room hating myself, until you breathed life back into me. You loved me so much that I started to love myself.
Tarryn Fisher
#22. I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
Charles Durning
#23. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#24. Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
Brene Brown
#25. I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.
Susane Colasanti
#26. Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#27. Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.
Marian Keyes
#28. I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.
Stephanie Klein
#29. We do not want to believe that we cannot control alcohol and that alcohol is, in truth, controlling and dictating our lives. When you free yourself of a dictator, like alcohol, the freedom that you experience is totally amazing and so empowering. You get your life back.
Liz Hemingway
#30. Humility is to joyfully, voluntarily and quietly submit one's whole life to God's will, to finally use the gift of agency to give one's life back to Him.
Virginia H. Pearce
#31. She put her hands to her face and rubbed, then dug her fingers into her scalp, trying to massage some life back into her tired brain.
Thea Harrison
#32. What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.
Anne Rice
#33. All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.
Anne Lamott
#34. wishing that her love alone could breathe life back into the fading form before her.
Jason Cantrell
#35. He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
Albert Schweitzer
#36. I write to breath life back into memory to remind African-Americans of our rich and textured history. I also see myself as a "root," and for me the "fierce winds" include the marginalization-the downright segregation-of literature written by people of color.
Bernice L. McFadden
#37. Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.
Jose Bernardo
#38. I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.
Shania Twain
#39. Even though I was death, she took the time to resuscitate me. She breathed life back into my soul. She brought me back from the shadows.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#40. As she lay awake, she reminded herself that she was beating the depression; she was winning her life back. She had survived, and now she was going to be better than ever before.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#41. His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of my word back. The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. Not only that, I had my life back -my own life. I would protect Lissa, I would serve, but I was finally my own person.
Richelle Mead
#43. You're on the verge of getting your soul and your life back and he's still what determines your happiness ? You don't need a relationship to be happy, Georgina.
Richelle Mead
#44. BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back. You know, I say give him life plus 20.
Jay Leno
#45. I'd do anything for you." And she knew he meant it. "Even before you healed me, you gave my life back, a reason for living. I adore you, I worship you. I love you beyond all reason.
Ava Gray
#46. You gave me my life back. You cared about me enough to push back my demons. You made me want to be with you every minute of the day because you made me feel things that no one else could. And whether you're lying beside me or living in my memories, I will love you. Forever. Always.
Lisa De Jong
#47. When beauty breathes life back into the broken
A.L. Jackson
#48. At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.
Eugene H. Peterson
#49. Happy Tuesday! Get your light and life back! Steer your energy in the right direction. Let go of any anger you have for others and prepare to be the best you!
Tracey Edmonds
#50. Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.
H.A. Kotys
#51. Real food has the power to give you your life back and more fully engage in the purpose for your life.
Rick Warren
#52. I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work.
Douglas Wood
#53. I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
Charles Van Doren
#54. Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.
Fred Funk
#55. I would harness the truths that had been trapped in me like a fire shut up in my bones. I would give my life over to my passions, my writing, and my children, and they would breathe life back into me.
Charles M. Blow
#56. I picked at one of the buttons on my vest until the thread unraveled and it fell into my palm. Memo to self- buy a sewing kit to stitch my life back together.
Anita Higman
#57. I don't want to live here. I want my old life back and I'll do anything for it.
M.M. Lindelo
#58. I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
Stephen Chbosky
#59. When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR
breathing the life back into me.
Sonya Sones
#61. Right now, I had everything I could ask for. It wasn't a long list, but it was a very satisfying one, starting with the love of my life back in my arms.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#62. For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living.
May Sarton
#63. I'm going to be wearing the Stryker hat because I'm a walking testimonial to the fact that you can get your knee replaced and still play at a really high level and get your life back.
Fred Funk
#64. I always say one of my favorite things about making movies is finishing on that last day because I get to have my life back and let that go, and hopefully have a real sense of accomplishment at the end of it.
Mark Wahlberg
#65. You breathed life back into me. It was instinct for me to be there with you. I didn't want to save you, I just didn't know how to leave you.
Tarryn Fisher
#66. She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do claim.
Jack Kerouac
#67. John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
Carter Burwell
#68. Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid, and the rest of my life looks drab. So I turn the damn thing off. That does it every time. Get my life back.
Michael Crichton
#69. She wanted her life back and that was mainly because of Vadim. She was a man she didn't want to leave. Even if her first instinct had been to flee, the time for running was over. She wouldn't live in fear forever.
Katie Reus
#70. I love you, Olivia," he whispered, and my heart ached as if it would break in half. "You think we'll die if we stay together, but I've been dying slowly for the last six years. I'm taking my life back, Liv. Our life together. And this time, I'm not going to let you go.
Rachel Vincent
#71. I would show her I wasn't a bit of cobweb in the corner, something to be wiped or straightened, but a rival worth her notice. I would learn her ways and habits, and track her closely until I knew what she was and how to best her, and what precisely it would take to steal my good life back.
Paula McLain
#72. Tom made her watch all three movies one afternoon," Justine says. "I wonder if Tara's ever forgiven you."
The phone beeps again and she reads, "I want those ten hours of my life back.
Melina Marchetta
#73. Rose West was starting 10 life sentences with no prospect of ever being released, Fred West had gone to hell, I had got my life back and the media circus had moved on to the next big scoop.
Stephen Richards
#74. Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
Yuvraj Singh
#75. Just forgive her in the name of God," Amma said of Abida. "Maybe it's good for you and her that she moved on with her life. Think positively that God gave your life back not to destroy with someone who failed to keep her promise.
Anand Giridharadas
#76. I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.
Chris Matthews
#77. My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.
Dorothy Allison
#78. You're not broken.' I touch the angel between the wings on his back for emphasis. 'You're putting your life back together. Building isn't breaking, Chase.
S.R. Grey
#79. I aggressively run into things, back up into things, have no depth perception, often forget which buttons and knobs do what, and am easily distracted. But enough about my sex life! Back to my driving skills!
Tyler Oakley
#80. I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.
Stacy Dragila
#81. Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.
Hiroko Sakai
#82. You made me whole. You took a wretched, broken soul and showed him how to take his life back.
Lauren Layne
#83. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
Steve Maraboli
#84. I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#85. It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.
Mary Travers
#86. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all temporary. And
Philip K. Dick
#87. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.
Jane Gardam
#88. 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember when I watched it for the first time. I mean, I don't remember when I first saw 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and it's one of my favourite movies.
Fede Alvarez
#90. We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
Daniel Libeskind
#91. You cannot go back and start a brand new beginning, but today is a new day and you can start a brand new thing.
Debasish Mridha
#92. One day you'll make peace with your demons, and the chaos in your heart will settle flat. And maybe for the first time in your life, life will smile right back at you and welcome you home.
Robert M
#93. A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Homer
#94. When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.
Meghan March
#95. You learn, finally, that you'll die, and so you try to hang on to your own life, that gentle, naive kid you used to be, but then after a while the sentiment takes over, and the sadness, because you know for a fact that you can't ever bring any of it back again. You just can't.
Tim O'Brien
#96. You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.
Giridhar Alwar
#97. You remember, you are drawn back to the pathway to enlightenment, to meditation, and when you begin to meditate your past life knowledge returns to you.
Frederick Lenz
#98. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#99. What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
Denzel Washington
#100. I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.
John Cusack
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