Coming back Quote by Virginia Woolf

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…

— Donna Tartt

My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had…

— Anchee Min

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I…

— Joy Page

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

As I look back at the entire tapestry of my life, I can see from the perspective of the present moment that every aspect…

— Wayne Dyer

“Woke up this morning, rather early, with a sense of a mind that had penetrated into unknown depths. It was as though the mind…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“As we look back on the arc of our lives, we often discover that the most significant, meaningful changes came from unexpected, seemingly unremarkable,…

— Alan Lurie

“But then a foreboding thought cast a shadow over the rest, blunt and unadorned, and it was simply this: that for most of my…

— Nicole Krauss

“What I'm feeling, I think, is joy. And it's been some time since I've felt that blinkered rush of happiness, This might be one…

— Craig Silvey

“Sometimes we think there is supposed to be this great spiritual awakening that happens before we make a change in our lives. We expect…

— Lynne Branard

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I had forgotten: this is what it feels like to live in time. The lurching forward, the sensation of falling of a cliff into…

— Charles Yu