“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

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

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

“It is perfectly true, as 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 in reverseBut must be lived forwards...I'm losing my senses”

“It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.”