Quotes on Retrospect

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.

In retrospect, the Millennium marked only a moment in time. It was the events of September 11 that marked a turning point in history, where we confront the dangers of the future and assess the choices facing humankind.

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came before.

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

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

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

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