No Return Quotes (9 quotes)

“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: bad-decisions, bad-past, blessings, burning-bridges, cause-and-effect, chance, crossroads, fate, fluke, future, ghost, good-intentions, happenstance, intend, luck, meet, needs, no-return, occasion, odds, outcome, pass, predictions, regrets, relations, risk, turning-point, zero-hour

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“We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.”
― S. K Tremayne

tags: astronaut, blackness, interstellar, life, no-return, return, space, travel

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“Every second that goes by is a point of no return.”
― J.R. Rim

tags: no-return, passing-moments, passing-of-time, passing-second, point-of-no-return, second-chances, time-goes-on

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“I am not sure I can."
"Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

tags: certainity, courage, going-forward, no-return, talking-animals

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“Unlike clocks, hours have no reverse motion..”
― Anonymous

tags: clock, clocks, endless, hour, hours, infinity, lost, minutes, motion, no-return, reverse, seconds, time, timeless, universe

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“We looked into one another's eyes, and I think we both knew in that instant that the past was behind us. We could never be to each other what we had been once.”
― Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell

tags: amory-ames, ashley-weaver, bittersweet, breakup, murder-at-the-brightwell, no-return, realization, sad, the-past

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“The point of no return in every relationship: When nothing you say or do can ever make things how they used to be.”
― Nitya Prakash

tags: no-return, relationship

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“You have sometimes thought of going back?"

"Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: dialogue, fantasy, impossibility, iris-murdoch, no-return, reality-vs-fantasy, returning, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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“Year after year he wondered if he should go back and year after year felt it all recede from him past hope, past endeavour . . . He could not find his way back there.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

tags: impossible, iris-murdoch, no-return, regret, return, sad, the-nice-and-the-good

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