Top 100 Never Go Back Quotes
#1. Everybody said to me back home, what do you want to go to Alaska for, and I said, because I've never been there, isn't that a good enough reason?
Alice Munro
#2. If you love something let it go, if it comes back to you it's yours." She shakes her head. "You never came back.
Emma Chase
#3. I can never go back from this, Bianca. It would break me to let you go. You know that, right?
R.K. Lilley
#4. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go ... So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself.
Jeanette Winterson
#5. I've always stayed on the periphery of things. When I used to go to the punk clubs and things like that, I was never up front. I always wanted to be in the back, or on the side, because I wanted to get the whole view, rather than be staring up at someone's nostrils.
James Wolcott
#6. Good girls earn good things." She let my jaw go, her eyes going beyond me toward Benny's house, then coming back to me. "Let yourself have good things." "It's not right," I told her quietly. "Know one thing on God's beautiful earth, and that is" - she leaned into me - "love is never wrong.
Kristen Ashley
#7. He'd learned a lot in the short time he'd been with the Cahills, and one of the biggest lessons was not to hold back. Go for it now, because you never knew what could happen the next day, or even the next minute . - Pony
Natalie Standiford
#8. Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.
Jessa Crispin
#9. First, though, she had to go back out there and smile at everyone. Fake her way through the rest of the night and another three days. Pretend to still be normal.
When she was pretty sure she never had been.
Robin Talley
#10. I will never give up on what I love. I will never back down. I will never let go of anything that is important to me. I will hold my course steady and my God will help me see it through. This is my promise, my anthem and my path. This is my future and I own it.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. That which we witness, we are forever changed by, and once witnessed we can never go back.
Angeles Arrien
#12. Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
Roald Dahl
#13. As for the coldness, I have never seen it like this. I mean, coldness that makes like it wants to kill you, like it's telling you, with its snow, that you should go back to where you came from.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#14. If we go to the white man for school ,we will learn the way the white man wants us to learn. We will come back and build the country the white man wants us to build. One that continues to serve them. We will never be free.
Yaa Gyasi
#15. In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
J.K. Rowling
#16. If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.
Les Claypool
#17. 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
#18. Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make my own decisions, go my own way, be my own person? Why had it seemed that being a child was never enough?
V.C. Andrews
#19. One thing is certain: We can't go back. The musical will never be the same as it was.
Harold Prince
#20. No matter how much money I ever get, I'm going to want to provide for my family and never have to go back to really struggling. You don't ever want to go outside, you don't ever want to be left in the cold. You want to be safe.
Ludacris
#21. If you get one taste of that man, you will never go back to polos and khakis. That boy is going to rock your world.
Lisa De Jong
#22. All girls have sex with a stranger fantasies and fantasies played out are healthier than those that have been left to fester and go mouldy. When we look back, we don't regret the things we have done, only the things left undone, the things we wanted to do and never did.
Chloe Thurlow
#23. He had no place he had to go to, no place to come back to. He never did, and he didn't now. The only place for him was where he was now.
Haruki Murakami
#24. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.
Bill Gates
#25. Most people have never known solitude ... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.
Louis Aragon
#26. If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.
Taylor Swift
#27. Me sins are great, and I'll burn for dem. But if ye never believe anyt'in' else, know dat I loved ye more den anyt'in'. Ye were me sanctuary. Me solace in a world gone mad. I'd endure a thousand deat's to go back and ensure ye did not feel one moment of pain.
Nicole Jacquelyn
#28. What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
Mario Puzo
#29. Never go back to a man with fresh bruises. Don't give him the satisfaction,
Gillian Flynn
#30. And the moment I started living for myself, I could never go back to living for somebody else
Akansha Gupta
#31. When you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#32. The sun was like a huge 50-cent piece that someone had poured kerosene on and then had lit with a match, and said, "Here, hold this while I go get a newspaper," and put the coin in my hand, but never came back.
Richard Brautigan
#33. She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.
Terri St. Cloud
#34. I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.
Angela Lansbury
#35. You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
Charles Kuralt
#36. I hope every person who reads or hears this will take the time to go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Only by recapturing the spirit of independence can we ensure our government never resembles the one from which the American States declared their separation.
Ron Paul
#37. Never look back; you may only find what you left or let you go.
Stefanos Livos
#38. No,' she says, as if the suggestion is ridiculous. 'I wouldn't go back to where I'm from. I'd go someplace I've never been.
Ally Condie
#39. Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
Alan Sugar
#40. Dad reckons if you have a great time in one place, then that's a good reason for never going back. Nothing will ever measure up to the first time. He laughs at people who go to the same place every year, same beach, same house, same things to do.
James Moloney
#41. I could never go back to something like that. Not after having passion for someone, after seeing what it's like to want and feel something in your bones,
Shelly Crane
#42. Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book.
Sela Ward
#43. 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
#44. The moment you label something, you take a step-I mean, you can never go back again to seeing it unlabelled.
Andy Warhol
#45. I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.
Nikki Sanderson
#46. They say you can never go home again." Bartholomew Quasar leaned back in his deluxe-model captain's chair as the star cruiser raced toward Earth. "But I tend to disagree.
Milo James Fowler
#47. Mark nodded even though she couldn't see. He'd suddenly lost any desire to talk, and his plans for a perfect day washed away with the stream. The memories. They never let him go, not even for a half hour. They always had to rush back in, bringing all the horror.
James Dashner
#48. 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
#49. I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah
#50. It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.
Theoren Fleury
#51. And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
Brandi Chastain
#52. I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?
John Green
#53. I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
Raoul Wallenberg
#54. Once you go purple, baby, you can never go back.
Eve Langlais
#55. You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you - which will be soon.
Love, D.
Richelle Mead
#56. Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
#58. 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
#59. All of a sudden you see reading in bed and waffles on Sunday and laughing at nothing and his mouth on yours. And it's so far beyond fine that you know you can never go back to fine.
Gillian Flynn
#60. I'm not playing for lack of options. But this is such a fleeting thing. When I'm done, I'm never, ever going to be able to come back to it. I know Vancouver is my last go.
Angela Ruggiero
#61. When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow.
William Goldman
#62. And if you dont come back from the dorm, I'm the one who has to explain to Micheal how I let you go off and get yourself killed like a Dumbass. First rule in horror movies, Clair-Never split up!
Rachel Caine
#63. 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
#64. Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.
Stephanie Danler
#65. Once you used a computer with a broadband connection, you knew you would never be able go back to the old voiceband modem connection - even if it was free.
Henry Samueli
#66. I was the captain of the latent paranoid softball team. We used to play all the neurotics on sunday morning. Nailbiters against the bedwetters, and if you've never seen neurotics play softball, it's really funny.
I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allen
#67. Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.
Swami Vivekananda
#68. Yes. Go away." I stare at the ceiling. Having him this close makes me sad for some reason. Must be the drugs again. I never did like being on them. Wine is way better.
He takes my hand back. "Don't be like that.
Elle Casey
#69. Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back
Kenny Chesney
#70. I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never.
Rob Zombie
#71. It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
Loretta Swit
#72. It's possible to go so far in, so far down and back, they could never get you out.
Margaret Atwood
#73. 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
#74. I kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did.
John Green
#75. The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
Shimon Peres
#76. if you have never trodden the path of love, go away and fall in love;
then come back and see us.
Jami
#77. You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.
James Baldwin
#78. This is my last communique from the planet of the monsters. Never again will I immerse myself in literature's bottomless cesspools. I will go back to writing my poems, such as they are, find a job to keep body and soul together, and make no attempt to be published.
Roberto Bolano
#79. Every crazy fad from the 1800s comes back or they never go away. It's like fashion, like everything's already been invented, and somebody stumbles onto it and people will always, always be looking for an answer for some vague illness they can't get a diagnosis for.
Mary Roach
#81. I wept in self-pity, and because I knew you could never go back. You chose your path, and that was it.
Juliet Marillier
#82. There is only one reason I did not go down in flames over the Angers, and that is because I knew I had Julie in the back. Would never have had the presence of mind to put that fire out if I hadn't been trying to save her life.
Elizabeth Wein
#83. Dear Trixie,
Will you come to Memphis with me?
A) Yes
B) No
C) I'd go anywhere with you because you fuck like a goddamn fire hose.
D) You're an asshole and I never want to see you again.
Circle ONLY ONE and give it back to me when you're done eating.
Love, J
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#84. He could never go back to that place, it had been sealed off to him for ever, blown to the sky with explosives then flattened to the ground with bulldozers, built over with tarmac, lived on top of by other people.
Selma Dabbagh
#85. Go for it, never back down, and don't give in, because there's no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
Madeleine Albright
#86. I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.
Don Ameche
#87. It is almost a matter of no account how far Marguerite will penetrate, whether she will ever be brought back or whether she will fall a prey to some wandering tramp - the sleepwalking of the infinite has seized upon her and never more will let her go.
Hermann Broch
#88. What I've started I must finish. I've gone too far to turn back. Regardless of what may happen, I have to go forward.
Michael Ende
#89. Hummingbirds laze around him. Fruit falls out of trees right into his open palms ... I've never felt this relaxed in my life. I keep forgetting my body and then have to go back and get it.
Jandy Nelson
#90. And I think that I cried for days, but now that seems lightyears away, and I'm NEVER going back to who I was
MoZella
#92. I wish I were a bird. I'd fly all the way up to the clouds and look down on this place, and then I'd go far away and never come back.
Jason Medina
#93. I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away.
Lady Gaga
#94. if you let something go and it doesn't come back to you, it was never really yours to begin with.
Penelope Ward
#95. You can never go wrong cuttin' fence,' repeated Smith, warming to his task. (Pling!) "Always cut fence. That's the law west of the 100th meridian. East of that don't matter none. Back there it's all lost anyhow. But west, we cut fence,' (Plang!)
Edward Abbey
#96. Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back.
Maxfield Parrish
#97. I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with. Wherever I go, La Castellane is where I want to go back to.
Zinedine Zidane
#98. When you grow up
and from the look of things, you have awhile
but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.
Marisha Pessl
#99. There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to improve whatever you did in the last movie, which never happens.
Robert Pattinson
#100. I would never go back to doing the show again. I mean, every day I think about Lifestyles because somebody comes up to me and tells me how much they love the show and I should bring it back, but this is not the time to bring it back. I don't think it would be as successful today as it once was.
Robin Leach
