Quotes About Looking Back On Your Life

#1. Stop looking back on your life and wishing it was different because pursuing that kind of mental activity will never lead to any worthy accomplishment. Think about what 'can be' rather than what 'was'.

Hina Hashmi

#2. I guess that's the lesson in all of this-not to be eighty years old, looking back on your life, wondering if you made the right choice or how your life might have been different if you'd done one thing and not another.

Mary Simses

#3. You realize that especially when you're writing a book like this, looking back on your life, that there's just such a depth of understanding you acquire over time with the help of the people who love you that that's when you can really get down to what you really think and believe.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken.
And alive, for the first time in his life.

V.S. Carnes

#5. If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?

Noam Chomsky

#6. I see ... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still ... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.

Claudia Gray

#7. All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

Sara Raasch

#8. Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.

Booth Tarkington

#9. When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

Nick Woodman

#10. Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

Ginger Rogers

#11. It;s all gone. My life is all gone and I can't work out why. I keep looking back over my life ... and I can't work out where it all went so wrong. What I did to make this happen.

Dorothy Koomson

#12. Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in.

Sue Whiting

#13. I don't want to accidentally end up looking back on my life to find that I'm ashamed of myself, I want to live a life I can be proud of.

Alice Bag

#14. ..., and I went back to my old habit of walking the halls looking down most of the time. It was different now, though - before I'd done it without thinking, because I didn't know another way. Now I was actively avoiding a life I knew might be out there. But it was my choice.

Michelle Falkoff

#15. He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible.

Milan Kundera

#16. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#17. If you look back on your life and where you started from it's like looking back down a mountain back to the desert floor. It's like now I can't believe I had whatever it takes or perceived whatever it took to get here.

Morgan Freeman

#18. There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

Anna Maxted

#19. It's funny, how fast life changes. One minute you are present, and the next, you might find yourself futilely trying to get back to the world you were once part of. You might find yourself looking for people who can no longer hear you. You are in the world, but not of it.

Jodi Picoult

#20. What exactly are you looking for in a job? Like, what's your best-case scenario for a new career?"
"I haven't really thought that far. The best-case scenario is just that I look back on this entire era of my life and laugh and say, 'What a weird time that was. I can't believe I did that.

Drew Nellins Smith

#21. The hardest part about moving on is - not looking back.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#22. As an old man ... looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about ... is suffering, affliction.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#23. I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#24. Paul says that our troubles are "light." Granted I may not see them as light in the midst of trauma, but looking back on them, they may seem light. He also says they are "momentary." They only last for a short time.

Lisa Bedrick

#25. Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.

Wayne Dyer

#26. Sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back. -Cade

Cora Carmack

#27. Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

Taylor Swift

#28. You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you're looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.

Diana Nyad

#29. I think she cared more for that bloody dog than for me, for us. And maybe that's not so stupid, looking back ... maybe it is easier living on your own looking after some stupid mutt than sharing your life with other actual human beings.

Mark Haddon

#30. I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.

Jodi Picoult

#31. My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Peter Orner

#32. Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

Suzi Quatro

#33. I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Reinhold Messner

#34. The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

Ray Bradbury

#35. Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned;
Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes.

Plato

#36. View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what you wouldn't

Viktor E. Frankl

#37. Looking back, I clearly understand that seeing a 'chain of command' approach in my house was a positive thing for me. My father provided a strong point of view on life and was a leader. Boys, especially, need that.

Bill O'Reilly

#38. No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

Junior Seau

#39. It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be - even if it isn't what you expected.

Jim Butcher

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

Mike Dooley

#41. You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you

Sunday Adelaja

#42. Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

Isak Dinesen

#43. She was so stupid. He was just another cowboy looking for someone to shine his buckle, and she'd fallen for it. What a fool. But, she wasn't a fool anymore. She knew who and what she was, and that man was not coming back into her life. No matter how sexy he still was.

Tamara Hoffa

#44. I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#45. Finally life becomes a very specific thing
and that's what we are. Ultimately, looking back, I'm beginning to believe that we need to always be fucked up. We need to always have some reason to hate ourselves, something to make us feel eternally incomplete.

Arthur Nersesian

#46. The mirror done broke and your life looking back at you from them sharp glass pieces.

Rita Leganski

#47. We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

William Landay

#48. Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

Oliver Sykes

#49. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.

Roman Payne

#50. God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

John Piper

#51. When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'

D. A. Pennebaker

#52. The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

A.G. Street

#53. Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#54. You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story?

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#55. He'll have to do without me, Jamie thought, not looking back. And then clearly, as if he'd been told, he knew Grenville /could/ do without him. There was somewhere else he had to go now, somewhere else he had to be.

S.E. Hinton

#56. When Angela wasn't looking, I kissed Abel, and he came back to life.

Raziel Reid

#57. I frequently look back at my life, searching for that fork in the road, trying to figure out where, exactly, I went bad and became a thrill-seeking, pleasure-hungry sensualist, always looking to shock, amuse, terrify and manipulate, seeking to fill that empty spot in my soul with something new.

Anthony Bourdain

#58. Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

Enid Blyton