Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision.

When we’re in the story, when we’re part of it, we can’t know the outcome. It’s only later that we think we can see what the story was. But do we ever really know? And...

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we do not like...

War is an option of difficulties.

In 1867, George Campbell, Duke of Argyll, had published The Reign of Law, a book that Darwin found deeply annoying. A supporter of Richard Owen, Campbell argued that while evolution (or “Development”) might be observable...

It’s so difficult, isn’t it? To see what’s going on when you’re in the absolute middle of something? It’s only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

But all these hints at foreseeing what actually did happen on the French as well as on the Russian side are only conspicuous now because the event has justified them. If the event had not...

I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.

The historian is a prophet facing backwards.

The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe

the greater number of a man’s errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see...

This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could...

I think there is no difference between love and infatuation. If it works out, we call it love; if it doesn’t, we shrug our shoulders and say it was infatuation. It’s a hindsight word.

The dead know everything, but don’t give a damn.

Although I may not like the different streets and paths life has taken me through, I have come to appreciate them afterwards.

True regret is knowing you missed your only opportunity to be simply a good friend to someone that was exactly like you.

Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool’s gold.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.

t’s not what others have said that hurt us the most. It’s the lies we believed about ourselves that caused us the most pain and hurt.

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all...

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

Now that his children had grown into their lives, their own children too, there was no one who needed more than the idea of him, and he thought maybe that was why he had this...

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

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

The MistakeWith the mistake your life goes in reverse.Now you can see exactly what you didWrong yesterday and wrong the day beforeAnd each mistake leads back to something worseAnd every nuance of your hypocrisyTowards yourself,...

People change, though, especially after they are dead.

Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth...

No one likes a person that “should of” all over the place.

In any case, while it is all very well to talk of ‘turning points’, one can surely only recognise such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed...

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, “I wish I had known this some time ago.

There’s a difference between thinking you can’t be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run…. I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it...

How you look at it is pretty much how you’ll see it

Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so doing we ignore it as a moment which, at the time,...

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain’t it? Part of a heyday is, you don’t never know you are having yourself one till later when it’s all over with, long gone.