Looking Back Quotes

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

I've always been interested in arrival, and coming to a space, and even to looking back at where you were.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Have you ever felt you were born in the wrong decade, or came just a bit too late and missed out on all the good stuff when it was in its heyday?

The best way to look back at life fondly is to meet it - and those along your journey - warmly, kindly and mindfully

Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.

Taking time to look back, is a foundation on course to build a stable future.

Amazing what more we can see looking back. But God didn't give us eyes in the back of our heads. Our eyes, like our feet, face forward, toward the future.

If you’re always looking back at what you’ve lost, you’ll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Fantasies... who needs fantasies? I have memories.

You could climb to the top of the world and jump into the deepest of ravines, but if you don’t have someone to share it with you’ll always be looking back.

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

It isn't as important to feel great about all the things we do. But how we feel toward the end when we look back at everything we've done.

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

Whether beautiful or terrible, the past is always a ruin.

But you are still you I'm still meAnd we are still we

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

They say to never look back.But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her

...do you ever know a moment is important as it's happening, or is it only when you look back that you can see your life is changed?

Every moment is precious, even the ones behind me that I often reflect upon with a reserved smile. However…I seldom look back, only forward in anticipation of the next greater now.

You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.

Looking back, I didn't have the patience to work in fashion. I like women so much, but I was never qualified to torture them in photo shoots. You have to be really tough and brutal.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.