Retrospect Quotes

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation

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• Most people muddled through events and only in retrospect realized their significance.

  Kate Atkinson

  People, Events, Significance

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Life After Life”, p.412, Random House

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.43, Random House

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Strong Women, Destiny, Names

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• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Laughing, Inspire

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

  Edward Teller

  Simple, Perspective, Worthwhile

  Edward Teller (1981). “The Pursuit of Simplicity”, Pepperdine Press

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• Perspective will come in retrospect.

  Melody Beattie

  Perspective

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

  Alan Greenspan

  Revolution

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• When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

  Bob Hope

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Integrity, Ethics, Easy

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• Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.

  Agatha Christie

  Children, Past, Views

  Agatha Christie (1991). “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Action, Mark

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.506, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Often a retrospect delights the mind.

  Dante Alighieri

  Mind, Delight

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

  Sophocles

  Reality, Suffering, Desire

  Sophocles (1958). “The Oedipus plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone”, Signet

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• So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Preparation, Routine

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• Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

  Gloria Steinem

  Government, Evil, Obvious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Observer, October 07, 1979.

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• Destiny is not something that happens all at once-it's something that happens only in retrospect.

  John Green

  Destiny, Happens

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• Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Beautiful, Looks

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Selfish, Exercise, Earth

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

  Don Henley

  Eagles, Realizing, Notes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

  Henry Fuseli

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ideas

  James Barry, John Opie, Henry Fuseli (1848). “Lectures on Painting”, p.358

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• That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

  Steve Carlton

  Past, Agree

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• Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

  Paul Theroux

  Travel, Memorable, Glamorous

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• I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Reflection, Order

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