Backwards Quotes

“If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Time, I think, is like walking backward away from something: say, from a kiss. First there is the kiss; then you step back, and the eyes fill up your vision, then the eyes are framed in the face as you step further away; the face then is part of a body, and then the body is framed in a doorway, then the doorway framed in the trees beside it. The path grows longer and the door smaller, the trees fill up your sight and the door is lost, then the path is lost in the woods and the woods lost in the hills. Yet somewhere in the center still is the kiss. That's what time is like.”
― John Crowley, Engine Summer

“Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“My mother forbade us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.”
― Anne Carson

“Life is really the dream and death is really the life.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The trouble is, you think something is everything and fail to realize that everything is something.”
― Kate McGahan

“There's no way that can be the river," Rhiow said.
"Rhi, the ceiling of Grand Central--" Saash said.
"It's backward," Rhiow snapped, "thank you very much, I know all about it."
"Is it?" Saash said. "Which direction are you coming at it from?"
Rhiow closed her mouth and thought about that.”
― Diane Duane, The Book of Night with Moon

“Where you are coming from doesn't matter but where you are going does. Hence look forward and not backwards. Your eyes are placed in front of you for a reason. Your eyes only look backwards for special references. Keep your eyes on the road.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“Never look back unless backwards is your destination.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick, the dog

“There’s a misconception that grief is about “looking backward,” mourning someone whose life has been reduced to memories. But grief is also about “looking forward,” realizing and grieving all the future events that your loved one will never get to participate in. Grief is half about mourning the past that was and half about mourning the future that never will be. You’re not weird or crazy for jumping months, years, or decades ahead to envision a life without your loved one present. In fact, when loss happens, we often feel like we’re losing everything all at once—past, present, and future. Sometimes in these moments, it’s comforting to know that while your loved one can no longer follow you into the future, your memories and love for them can.”
― Shelby Forsythia, Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss

“Does the troll know he's got his head on back to front?”
― Vivian French, The Robe of Skulls

“The days passed.
Viveca waited. Waited and slept. Every morning when she woke up, she felt a little brighter. She felt stronger, and when she caught her reflection in the mirror, she looked younger. And the hands of the clock kept on moving backwards, and in the end Viveca began to suspect what was happening in this house of stone:
Time was moving backwards!”
― Johan Theorin

“If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become the truly destructive thing?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The vision of the Progressive has often been but to walk forward while facing backward; the business of the Reactionary, but that of walking backward while facing forward; henceforth the fallout is oftentimes, and obviously enough, but the formulation and the construction of obstacles in life and hurdles on-site, as long as there are cliffs on edge.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“More times than not, going backwards is a necessary part of going forwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You have to walk through life backwards. You can never see what’s coming next. But if you never lose sight of where you’ve been — if you study your past and the consequences of going through it — you’ll have at least a glimpse of what’s yet to come.”
― Joe DeShon, The Mind of Joe

“If I spend all my time looking in the rearview of my life, I can be going in reverse while simultaneously experiencing the rather convincing illusion that I’m going forward.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You always carry a black tarot card with you to breakfast?" she asked.
"This is the first time."
"I bet. I gotta ask you though, why the Magician?"
"A friend gave it to me. Why? What do you know about it?"
"I know you got yourself involved with a black-back magician. That means everything is hidden, and backward. You could run into an animal that doesn't act like one. A magical animal like a rougarou. A werewolf that feasts on evil souls."
I put the card in my back pocket, horizontally, so it wouldn't fall out this time.
"Protect your soul, Eggs."
"I'm not evil," I said, already out the door and on the way to see Michael, who seemed more normal to me at that moment than the waitress at Johnny River's.
"We're all capable of it sometimes," she yelled behind me.”
― Margot Berwin, Scent of Darkness

“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Going backwards in life means that I have to cover twice the distance just to catch up with where I should be.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Because the chainsaw is running doesn’t mean that you didn’t put the chain on backwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Sometimes you make more progress by going backwards.”
― Steven Magee

“Frack To Bont by Stewart Stafford

Rip The Jacker,
Killy The Bid,
Ken F. Johnnedy,
But not Saesar, Cid.

Meddie Frercury,
Kanley Stubrick,
Lohn Jennon,
But no Magger of Jick.

Cilly Bonnolly.
Cave Dhappelle,
Pichard Rryor,
No Relch of Waquel.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved”
― Stewart Stafford

“The paddle which only keeps you in same place or take you to backwards wastes time.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“If only life could be lived backward, we'd know the mistakes not to make,' Kylee thought, 'and instead of losing all we knew peck by merciless peck, time would return things to us every day, bringing back everything we didn't yet know we'd lost.”
― Alex London, Black Wings Beating

“When the problem of marginalization arises, some people go to the top from the ground and those who are on the top backwards.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Review the place where let you to stay at the same spot or will return you to backward if you don't have any problems making sure you are in an inappropriate place.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Two steps forward and one step back is still progress, binding us to stronger stuff. People can tell you all day long that you’re strong. What’s more helpful to hear is, use your strength.

That’s the step forward, stabilized.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“To learn from yesterday is growth,
To be stuck in yesterday is decay.
To look for a better future is vision,
To be stuck there only causes dismay.

Glance at the past, aim for the future,
But keep your feet grounded in present.
Learn from history, envision the destiny,
‘N dive in today with your sweat valiant.

Memory is meant to give you ground,
Not to impede in your prosperity.
Vision is to embolden your footsteps,
Not to disconnect you from reality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables