“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”

“You see how it is with us? You can't fight it any more than I can. You've tried; you've done everything you can to kill it. But you can't kill my love for you.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

“Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

“There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.”

Mary Hoffman book City of Flowers

“You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.”

Christine Feehan book Dark Destiny

“And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

John Marsden (1950) author