Retrospect Quote by Haruki Murakami Download Open image “There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.” — Haruki Murakami ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Retrospect
We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing. — Sophie Ristelhueber Copy Share Image
If the past was what we were meant to see...Then behind, not in front, our eyes would be. — RVM Copy Share Image
What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
continually we look at things about us without seeing more than a very little of what is there. — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable I. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
More often than we realize, people see in us what we don't see in ourselves. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get… — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think… — Jeffrey Skilling Copy Share Image
Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice… — Howard Fineman Copy Share Image
My main objective with every album is to capture a moment in time, which usually makes the whole process very relaxing. I only discover… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners. — Caroline Pratt Copy Share Image
People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
