Hindsight Quotes

116 quotes by 111 authors

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove… — Swami Satchidananda
It is only now, these years later, that Rahel with adult hindsight recognized the sweetness of that gesture. A grown man entertaining three raccoons, treating… — Arundhati Roy
Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not… — Bernhard Schlink
To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago. — Roger Zelazny
As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless. — Ellen Hopkins
Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human… — Simon Pegg
why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? — Bernhard Schlink
But everyone's an expert with the virtue of hindsight . . . . — Kate Morton
Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to… — Jeannette Walls
It's so difficult, isn't it? To see what's going on when you're in the absolute middle of something? It's only with hindsight we can see… — S.J. Watson
hindsight is gained through experience — Ellen Hopkins
But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. — Kate Morton
Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more… — Karen White
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. — Billy Wilder
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog
I went to high school in Lexington, Massachusetts, which in hindsight was very nice. — Eugene Mirman
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to… — Jimmy Cliff
I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with… — Tom Felton
From as far back as I can remember, I was always insecure about my looks, whether it was my flat chest, my skinny legs, or… — Twiggy

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