Retrospective Quotes

“In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!”

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

“The act of vividly recalling a patch of the past is something that I seem to have been performing with the utmost zest all my life, and I have reason to believe that this almost pathological keenness of the retrospective faculty is a hereditary trait.”

“It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”

“The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.”

“Best to distrust this retrospective radiance: gold dust settles over memory and makes it shine.”

“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”

“A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future”

“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”