Retrospect Quotes

• I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

  

  Sophocles
  • Desire
  • Suffer
  • Retrospect

• The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Shadows
  • Retrospect
  • Sleepers

• I really tend to write in retrospect.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Write
  • Tend
  • Retrospect

• Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Life
  • Writer
  • Retrospect

• Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

  

  Ellis Peters
  • May
  • Pleasure
  • Saint

• There are many things we only see clearly in retrospect.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Retrospect

• In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Retrospect
  • UNICEF
  • Audrey Hepburn

• One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Beautiful
  • Strike
  • Retrospect

• Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Beautiful
  • Looks
  • Retrospect

• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Earth
  • Fantasy
  • Pascal

• The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Summer
  • Meet
  • Review

• There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with that. Let's do something else."And you always think "Oh my God I've never done anything at all like that before." But, of course, in retrospect, and to an outsider, they'll say, "Oh, yeah that's typical Eno.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Edge

• It is only in retrospect that the high points of our lives rise up, flaunting banners.

  

  Caroline Pratt
  • Lives
  • Points
  • Rise Up

• In retrospect, I went to Jane Fonda for literally everything. During Mermaids, we were staying in the same building, so she was right upstairs from me. I was in my first relationship, so I got all sorts of advice. She became famous in her late teens.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Relationship
  • Advice
  • Jane Fonda

• Often a retrospect delights the mind.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Mind
  • Retrospect
  • Delights

• A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Joys
  • Retrospect
  • Reflex

• Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

  

  George Eliot
  • Childhood
  • Meaning
  • Retrospect

• Christian history looks glorious in retrospect; but it is made up of constant hard choices and unattractive tasks, accepted under the pressure of the Will of God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Choices
  • Will Of God
  • Christian History

• I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.

  

  William Bolcom
  • Process
  • Retrospect
  • Composing

• Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

  

  Jessica Livingston
  • Innovation
  • Battle
  • Inevitable

• He had the advantage, in retrospect, that that's the only thing he grew up with, right ? In a sense, one of his strengths is that he's a purist to That SaaS model.

  

  Eric Yuan
  • Advantage
  • Strengths
  • Purist

• Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.

  

  William A. Rusher
  • Citizens
  • Supreme
  • Justified

• You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Values
  • Retrospect

• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Choices
  • Destiny
  • Consequences

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