Retrospect Quotes

134 Retrospect quotes by 119 unique authors

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version. — Chuck Palahniuk
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. — Sigmund Freud
We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous… — Vladimir Nabokov
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . — Michael Lewis
Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you are not aware… — Lionel Shriver
I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans… — Louis de Bernieres
Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. — Chuck Palahniuk
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret… — Joyce Carol Oates
Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it… — Carl Sagan
It is almost impossible to describe happiness, because at the time it feels entirely natural, as if all the rest of your life has been… — Margaret George
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. — Tana French
You’re the one who unleashed him. (Savitar) Yeah, well, let’s move on from the blame game. I was having suicidal thoughts and it seemed like… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else… — Donna Tartt
I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the… — Suzanne Collins
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that… — Gloria Steinem
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August… — Robert James Waller
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. — John Green
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that… — Hunter S. Thompson
When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and… — Taylor Swift
...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances. — Stephen King
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can… — Haruki Murakami
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap, — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect,… — Jenna Black
There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect. — Haruki Murakami

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