Quotes about back
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“Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.”

Douglas Coupland book JPod

Source: JPod

“Alec dragged the heavy canvas bag out of the back of the van, dropping it on the sidewalk. "Ready to go." He announced. "Lets kick some demon butt!"
Jace looked at him a little oddly. "You alright?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.”

Bill Bryson A Walk in the Woods

Source: A Walk in the Woods

Time

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Someone Like You (1998)

Way

“we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph

and death i think is no parenthesis”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Life, Death, Thinking

“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Hope, Music, Way, Feeling

“They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Memory of Water

Siblings, Childhood

“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: The Funny Thing Is...

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Courageous, Powerful, Life, Fear

“Once you lose someone it is never exactly
the same person who comes back.”

Sharon Olds Satan Says

Source: Satan Says

Personality

“And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time.'
'That accident was not my fault.'
'You were the only one on the road, and the mailbox actually didn't leap out in front of you. No arguments. You sit in the back, too.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Time

“When she comes
She pulls you close
She breathes in short bursts
Her eyes close
Her head tilts back
Her mouth opens slightly
Her thighs turn to steel, and then melt
She is perfect
And you feel like you are everything.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: The Portable Henry Rollins

Feeling, Perfection

“Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon.”

Stephen King book The Talisman

Source: The Talisman

“Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Past

“P. S. You'll have to meet with Dan's principal when you get back. He got in trouble for doing ninja moves in class. Don't worry. This happens all the time.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Source: The Black Book of Buried Secrets

Time

“I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls back as soon as she’s done getting her way.”

Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

Way

“Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Love, Time

“He threw his head back and sang, "'I am a centaur, yes, a centaur is what I am.' It's not like you to wax, Artemis"

"Foaly is singing," said Holly. "Surely that's illegal?”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Atlantis Complex

Singing

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

"The Absolute Collective", an essay first published in The Criterion on The Absolute Collective : A Philosophical Attempt to Overcome Our Broken State by Erich Gutkind, as translated by Marjorie Gabain
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Context: All about us we see a world in revolt; but revolt is negative, a mere finishing-off process. In the midst of destruction we carry with us also our creation, our hopes, our strength, our urge to be fulfilled. The climate changes as the wheel turns, and what is true for the sidereal world is true for man. The last two thousand years have brought about a duality in man such as he never experienced before, and yet the man who dominates this whole period was one who stood for wholeness, one who proclaimed the Holy Ghost. No life in the whole history of man has been so misinterpreted, so woefully misunderstood as Christ's. If not a single Man has shown himself capable of following the example of Christ, and doubtless none ever will for we shall no longer have need of Christs, nevertheless this one profound example has altered our climate. Unconsciously we are moving into a new realm of being; what we have brought to perfection, in our zeal to escape the true reality, is a complete arsenal of destruction; when we have rid ourselves of the suicidal mania for a beyond we shall begin the life of here and now which is reality and which is sufficient unto itself. We shall have no need for art or religion because we shall be in ourselves a work of art. This is how I interpret realistically what Gutkind has set forth philosophically; this is the way in which man will overcome his broken state. If my statements are not precisely in accord with the text of Gutkind's thesis, I nevertheless am thoroughly in accord with Gutkind and his view of things. I have felt it my duty not only to set forth his doctrine, but to launch it, and in launching it to augment it, activate it. Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. I am one man who can truly say that he has understood and acted upon this profound thought of Gutkind's —“the stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do."