1. backwards - Adjective
2. backwards - Adverb
With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
On the back, or with the back downward.
Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
By way of reflection; reflexively.
From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
Source: Webster's dictionaryTo repent is not to look downwards at my own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love, it is not to look backwards with self-reproach but forward with trustfulness, it is to see not what I have failed to be, but what by the grace of Christ I might yet become. John Climacus
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. Lewis Carroll
A cat will teach her young ones all the tricks, except how to jump backwards. Netherlands Antillean Proverb
He who does not advance goes backwards. French Proverb
Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. African Proverb