Retrospection Quotes

“Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Retrospect: the sweetener of life.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You carry the message you've been seeking, but realization of it is found in healthy retrospection, not among the wilderness of chaotic noise.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“It is necessary to monitor your behavior if you wish to change it. Awareness is essential.”
― Akiroq Brost

“So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war’s true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war — which was being remembered even as it was fought, whose fallen were being remembered before they fell — seems not so much to be tinted by retrospect as to have been fought retrospectively.”
― Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme

“-Zamanaşımına uğrayarak hiçbir anlamı kalmamış eski kağıtlara, mektuplara ve yazılara dalmak kadar insanı çökerten bir başka şeyin var olabileceğini düşünemiyorum. Ne kadar geçmişin külleri, ne kadar unutulmuş şeyler, ne kadar boşa çıkmış tasarılar, ne kadar sönmüş aşklar söz konusudur bunlarda! Sanki araştırmak için mezarından çıkardığım, kadavralaşmış kendi genç bedenimdi ve bu kadavra kimi zaman masumiyetiyle insanın yüreğini parçalar gibi oluyorsa da kabul etmeliyim ki her zaman mis gibi koktuğu da söylenemezdi.- O, Theobald ya da Kusursuz Cinayet”
― Michel Tournier, The Midnight Love Feast

“Everything I've ever wanted...it really could be mine, if I just have the courage to reach for it”
― Catharina Maura, The Unwanted Marriage

“Knowing and understanding which decisions brought you to where you are now will help you to make better decisions in the future.”
― Akiroq Brost

“I've been happy here.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“Vlad looked more and more coldly delighted. "There are always the stronger and the weaker, the leaders and the followers. Don't you force the weaker among you to accept the scraps that are left when the stronger have eaten their fill? Don't they wear worn-out rags instead of warm clothes? Stronger and weaker exist in any group, but you've clearly decided that some humans are more important than others. Some kinds of humans are humans and the other kinds are... property? Is that how it works? I didn't realize you monkeys had such savagery in you. Next you'll be eating your weak in order to keep the strong healthy.”
― Anne Bishop, Written in Red

“Watching the slowly retreating figures of those old hunched women, I feel desolate because in the end we are condemned to lose everyone we love.”
― Indra Sinha, Animal's People

“If we never want to look back on the past, we create tension between memory and independence, retrospection and progress. By so doing, we make a radical commitment to the future that becomes a state of unbridled freedom. (“Never looking back again”
― Erik Pevernagie

“As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.”
― Sara Sheridan

“El destino no obliga a nadie. Yo solo indico el camino; las personas son las que ejecutan las acciones que llevan a consumar el destino tarde o temprano, pero no son obligadas. ¿Complicado? Pues ese es el precio de la ignorancia.”
― Guillermo Ávila Colina, Sombras: Cuentos Humanos de Misterio y Horror

“he ill he real he might gotta deal”
― timothee chalamet

“Some people vote for the party, some for the candidate, while there are some that vote for their belief or believing in the ideology. They all believe these are different choices, and that they have chosen wisely.”
― Ashutosh Joshi

“My habitual residence was on the blank and dreary northern shores of the Tay, near Dundee. Blank and dreary in retrospection I call them; but they were not so to me then. They were the eyry of freedom, and the pleasant region where unheeded I could commune with the creatures of my fancy.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein