Life Back Quotes

#1. 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

#2. '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

#3. The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preussler

#4. We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

Daniel Libeskind

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. When she'd stepped back into my life, I'd seized the moment. I'd carpe'd the fucking diem.

Meghan March

#9. 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

#10. You may lose many things in the way you have chosen, don't look back but serve your purpose.

Giridhar Alwar

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. My life is never perfect, but life is always a beautiful thing. I choose to see the beauty out of it. I choose to make it wonderful. I choose to love life and it loves me back in return. I may only have one life to live, but if I do it right, once is enough.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#16. Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.

Kiera Cass

#17. The new luxury is the luxury of freedom and time. Once you've had a taste of that life, no corner office or fancy chef will be able to drag you back.

Jason Fried

#18. Would the man in the cabin have come after them? Would he have sent someone else? Or would he have never even known they were there and they could have just gone back to normal life.
Normal Life. He didn't even know what that would be now.

Shelley K. Wall

#19. Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

Francis Chan

#20. This moment will never ever come back, so create a memory and hold it tight.

Debasish Mridha

#21. They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

Black Elk

#22. And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I didn't realize that he was dead until I awoke and then it was like a punch in the stomach. And sometimes I knew in my dream that I was dreaming, and I woke up crying.

Ilona Andrews

#23. If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

Shreya Ghoshal

#24. When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Abraham Lincoln

#25. I knew from the start that I loved her and knew, as well, that I would never fall back from that love, never try, never want to.

Scott Spencer

#26. Send me out into another life. But get me back for supper.

Faith Popcorn

#27. When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#28. This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing.

Derrick Jensen

#29. It's one of the magical things about life, that when you hit a wall, you step back genuinely and humbly ... and the answers suddenly flow like a babbling brook.

Gregor Collins

#30. Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

Wayne Dyer

#31. As far back as I can remember I would escape from my humdrum world by burying myself in books
the
one true love of my life when growing up.

Jane Green

#32. Smile at a friend, at a stranger, at an enemy, at life's absurdities and the universe will smile back at you.

Carol Vorvain

#33. We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again!

Homer

#34. I jumped out the back of a bus because everyone told me I wouldn't

Jennifer Lawrence

#35. You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.

Ted Demme

#36. As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

Oscar Wilde

#37. Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it

Bradley Bowman

#38. To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Clint Eastwood

#39. Even before I had children I wanted the intensity of my life to get greater. I wanted to feel things more strongly. I wanted my intellectual parameters to expand. But it comes back to your own desire to be engaged and to live up to your parameters.

Jeff Koons

#40. In Naples, there were kids who were just lost. You knew they were never going to get back to what they'd been, or have a normal life. And then there were other ones who you though, maybe they will. What I'm saying is, we're the survivors. Not everyone is. But we are. Okay?

Jennifer Egan

#41. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Carrie Jones

#42. The things that make you special will give you all kinds of advantages in life, but they will also hold you back and expose your weaknesses.

Marie Lu

#43. 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

#44. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz

#45. People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

Lindsay Fox

#46. To be a Bond villain, you only get to do that once in your life. You never get to come back.

Vincent Schiavelli

#47. Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

Arthur Miller

#48. I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.

Tim Blixseth

#49. Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back.

Steve Maraboli

#50. She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.

Mary Balogh

#51. Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

Eric Kandel

#52. He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed

Michael Thomas Ford

#53. Everyone in the world needs someone they can depend on. Be their faithful friends, determined advocates, or a loving family. But occasionally in life, the people we thought would always be there for us ... leave. And if that happens, it's amazing the lengths we'll go to, to get them back.

Mary Alice

#54. All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias.

Demi Lovato

#55. It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Lewis Carroll

#56. People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

Caroline B. Cooney

#57. The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

Yasmin Shiraz

#58. And the moment I started living for myself, I could never go back to living for somebody else

Akansha Gupta

#59. When someone hurts you, don't hurt him back but hit him with your unconditional love.

Debasish Mridha

#60. It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.

William James

#61. Each of us has his cowardice. Each of us is afraid to lose, afraid to die. But hanging back is the way to remain a coward for life. The Way to find courage is to seek it on the field of conflict. And the sure way to victory is willingness to risk one's own life.

Mas Oyama

#62. I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life ... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know ... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Constance Wu

#63. Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe

Mike Dooley

#64. The purpose of life is to find your way back to a spiritual way of thinking and living - to be able to get past the physical stuff.

Wendy Higgins

#65. When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

Emily Yoffe

#66. I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

Alan Ladd

#67. There's no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I'm not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#68. Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

William Hazlitt

#69. She was my compass. I was her legend. We were the rivers and the lakes, the highways and the back roads, the mountains and the borders. I finally knew where I was. Charlotte was my You Are Here point on the map of life.

Julia Kent

#70. When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Robert Rodriguez

#71. My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.

Samuel Barnett

#72. The past can't touch you or call you back; you are going far away from it with gratitude and wisdom to learn from the future.

Debasish Mridha

#73. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

#74. I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.

John Corey Whaley

#75. I threw my head back and screamed bloody murder, completely fed up with everyone in my life.

Sylvia Day

#76. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#77. Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning. I think you need somebody to love and take care of, and someone who loves you back. In that sense, I think the New Testament got it right. So did the Beatles. Without love, nothing has any meaning.

Dick Van Dyke

#78. Everything we come across becomes a part of us. It doesn't matter how small or insignificant it is ... or how devastating. One story here, one story there, that's what I see when I look back at my life. An accumulation of everything I went through.

Bhaskaryya Deka

#79. I felt as if something hung there in the back of my mind, waiting to tarnish whatever happiness I might find. Is it safer to be unhappy? Nothing ever wants to take that away.

Storm Constantine

#80. I love that fact that Kayla actually persevered and went back to her sport," she said. "That's the role models. Sometimes, things like that happen and what do you do? Do you crumble with your life or do you go forward? Hee said she chose to go forward.

Dana Hee

#81. Most people take long breaks after Olympics. I needed some normalcy back in my life, so I came back to the pool.

Eric Shanteau

#82. There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life.

Kristin Cashore

#83. I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.

Loretta Ellsworth

#84. At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Isabel Allende

#85. If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Dave Pelzer

#86. Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Jodi Picoult

#87. She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Jane Austen

#88. Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Jacqueline Carey

#89. When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

Carine Roitfeld

#90. And where does that minute go, that minute that separates life from death? I want those sixty seconds back.

Carmen Rodrigues

#91. We create our own destiny, but notwithstanding an occasional trip down the wrong path. The key is realizing when it's the wrong path and having the courage to do a little backtracking until you are back on the road to the life you were meant to live.

Books

#92. I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

Shirley Henderson

#93. We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

Tanya R. Liverman

#94. No one ever comes back from the dead., no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is ever asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is ever asked when he wishes to leave.

Soren Kierkegaard

#95. I don't believe in sort of holding back, you know, life isn't a dress rehearsal!

Kate Winslet

#96. You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.

Jon Huertas

#97. I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Joseph Conrad

#98. You will never know everything. Knowledge unfolds as we move forward. Sitting back and waiting to know everything before we do anything is a waste of life.
~ I Am Another You

Priya Kumar

#99. Life's got to be a game we are playing, so stand back and check out your moves.

Jay Woodman

#100. As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.

Peter Mullan