“It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.”

“Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.”

“Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards”

“Life can only be understood backward; the trouble is, it has to be lived forward.”

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”

“Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“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.”

“To live alone one must be an animal or a god - says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both - a philosopher.”