Top 89 Quotes About Life Backwards
#1. Don't play the reels of your life backwards - play them forward.
Art Hochberg
#2. She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.
Elizabeth Hay
#3. Most people live life backwards. They party and kill time in their youth, when they're strong and have the energy to accomplish great things. And then they're older, they try to get things done, but they have less energy and enthusiasm by that time.
Jarod Kintz
#5. If you aren't ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick is that you can only ever understand your life backwards, but you live it forward.
Valentine Glass
#6. I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
Alan Cumming
#7. If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right.
Jenson Button
#8. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
Alan McCluskey
#9. All I want is a chance to start this over with you. We did it backwards, and that's on me. I get it. But damn it, let me try again, because if you don't, it'll be the biggest regret of my life.
Kristen Proby
#10. I walked home, seeing all my doubt from the other side. Have you ever seen that? Like when you go on holiday. On the way back, everything is the same but it looks a little different than it did on the way. It's because you're seeing it backwards.
Markus Zusak
#12. The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.
Umberto Eco
#13. You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs
#14. I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#15. Your thought is so important because it has the ability to make or mar you. Your thought will either move you forward or set you backwards.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#16. Truth is ... You wouldn't want to sail your boat backwards, so why would you want to sail backwards with your life? Prosperity is always ahead of you & never behind!
Bullying Ben
Timothy Pina
#17. Separate yourself from those who hinder your vision. Make a choice to walk away from the trap set to ensnare you. Realize when someone is pulling you backwards every time you take a step forward. Separate from them and the result of your action will be a life of success.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#18. There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
Gabrielle Zevin
#19. Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.
Randy Alcorn
#21. Our actions in the present build the staircase to the future. The question is whether that staircase is going up or down.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
Wayne Dyer
#23. If you could fly backwards into the past at the rate of one year per second, it would take you about half an hour to reach the time of Christ, and a little over three weeks to get back to the beginnings of human life. But it would take you twenty years to reach the dawn of the Cambrian period.
Bill Bryson
#25. You're not going to just walk out of my life. Especially when your reasons are ass backwards.
Tenaya Jayne
#26. You're impatient for your life to start lifting you up and making you happier. You have that backwards: if you want a happier life, you have to make it happen. It's not called YOUR life for nothing! - Charmainism
Charmaine Smith Ladd
#27. I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#28. I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.
Jeremy Paxman
#29. Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.
Sherry Argov
#30. The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.
Rebecca Makkai
#31. He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
Jonathan Renshaw
#33. Keep walking forward on the road of life ... don't look backwards. The prize you are searching for is ahead of you ... not behind you!
Timothy Pina
#34. It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.
Richard Paul Evans
#35. History ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.
Marthe Bibesco
#36. Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
Soren Kierkegaard
#37. Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
Adeline Yen Mah
#38. Life is lived forwards and understood backwards. The mystery of where all the jigsaw pieces fit together is still unfolding and for that I am, and will always be, more than happy
Sheila Whiteley
#39. When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.
G.K. Chesterton
#40. Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
Al Duncan
#41. I got so schooled this year.
By a nine year old.
He taught me that it's okay to live life
a little backwards.
Colleen Hoover
#42. I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.
Mary E. DeMuth
#43. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.
J.A. Redmerski
#44. Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.
Alan DeNiro
#45. Notwithstanding how uncanny moments of life might be, you never walk backwards. Once you take a step, you move forward by a step with a step. That is life! Even a child would never crawl backward and so would streams hardly flow backward. Just keep moving when it is a must to move!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
Eric Roth
#47. If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards
Muni Natarajan
#48. From where we stand, immortality and death are synonymous: a two-headed monster of
semantics. Having no value for us except as "endness," they generate value backwards
into life.
Thomas Ligotti
#49. Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#51. It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
Harvey Fierstein
#52. There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.
Roald Dahl
#53. It's funny, how you realize things too late. Someone once said to me the tragedy about life is that you understand it backwards. But I don't think so. I think the tragedy about life is there is no tragedy - you just don't know it till you die."
- Patty Belle Bellani
Marianne Macdonald
#54. You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards -Secret Life of the Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
#55. Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
Yvon Chouinard
#56. My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.
Andy Serkis
#57. Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards. - Kierkegaard
Oliver Sacks
#58. Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.
Hanif Kureishi
#59. If it came to saving the life of one priest or sacrificing the life of an entire congregation, the church would save the life of the priest. Which is backwards, of course.
Rob Walton
#60. Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#61. Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on the Precipice of Change will we truly move forward ... It will most definitely take a Miracle.
Solange Nicole
#62. The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...
Anne Sexton
#63. In our own lives the voice of God speaks slowly, a syllable at a time. Reaching the peak of years, dispelling some of our intimate illusions and learning how to spell the meaning of life-experiences backwards, some of us discover how the scattered syllables form a single phrase.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#64. Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
Bruno Mars
#66. His life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turbulence of the times makes some people feel a need to bestir themselves, but in the opposite direction, backwards rather than forwards;
Italo Calvino
#67. What his uncle does not understand is that in walking backwards, his back to the world, his back to God, he is not grieving. He is objecting. Because when everything cherished by you in life has been taken away, what else is there to do but object?
Yann Martel
#68. I kind of blossomed backwards. I got cancer, fell in love and have a magical life. I never imagined it would happen that way, but you just go with the flow, right?
Kris Carr
#69. It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
#70. Life is always like driving a car,you can either go forward or backwards.You can never go sideways.The better option,a better life
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#71. You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.
Bruno Mars
#72. Sometimes some moments arrive in life: You go forward and you lose; you go backwards and you win!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. The trouble with life is that we lead it forwards and understand it backwards.
N. Lombardi Jr.
#77. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#78. God has got everything worked out; He has everything set and in place to make us successful. He knows that if our life is going to progress, we need to keep moving forward, and not go backwards.
Sunday Adelaja
#79. L I V E or E V I L
to Live life is to spell forward. To not live life is to spell backwards.
Shannon L. Alder
#80. You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
Your objective should be to go ahead.
Napoleon Hill
#81. What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#82. In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.
Woody Allen
#83. I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.
Joe Cornish
#84. We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.
A.J. Compton
#85. Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
David Lodge
#86. There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more than life. Humans put their animals "to sleep" when it's really waking them up. Everybody has it all backwards.
Kate McGahan
#88. Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
Ian Fleming
#89. Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
Martin Luther
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