Return Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old return quotes, return sayings, and return proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return. Thomas a Kempis
Return good for good; return evil with justice. Confucius
Come back to yourself. Return to the voice of your body. Trust that much. Geneen Roth
It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela
Something once lost will never return. Yana Toboso
The return makes one love the farewell. Alfred De Musset
We must return to nature and nature's god. Luther Burbank
When much is taken, something is returned. Terry Pratchett
In the woods we return to reason and faith. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To return to nature is to embrace extinction. Mark X.
Return to the root and you will find the meaning. Sengcan
In the life of one man, never The same time returns. T.S. Eliot
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. Zhuangzi
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you. Clay Aiken
When man will return to nature, nature will return to him. Grigoris Deoudis
The development of man is a return to an original perfection. Swami Vivekananda
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return. Plautus
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. Francesco Guicciardini
To love is to return to a home we never left, to remember who we are. Sam Keen
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. Andre Gide
One may return to the place of his birth, He cannot go back to his youth. John Burroughs
The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for. Richard Paul Evans
Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it. Jonathan Safran Foer
The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return. Ryuho Okawa
The true test of faith is how we treat those who can do nothing for us in return. Dillon Burroughs
When the light returns to its source, it takes nothing of what it has illuminated. Rumi
You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here. Elizabeth Gilbert
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back. Paul Theroux
For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price. Sophocles
The words can not return. Horace