| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| bc9749c | Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . . | retrospect | Michael M. Lewis | |
| 3a553f5 | 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. | retrospect | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| 5c397fc | Human tragedies are always simple when we reconsider them in retrospect. | retrospect | Georges Simenon |