Quotes About Hindsight

If you had the chance, would you change what you did? We haven't rehearsed the answer, and maybe it's the only one that really matters. I turn, so that I am staring square at you; so that you know, all my life, anything I've ever said or buried beneath silence was just for you. If I had the chance, I reply. I'd do it all over again.

Only later, when it may be too late, do we realize that in fact we have made things worse.

Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.

deep regret, "none of this would ever have happened.

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

It's only now, in hindsight, that I think she saw her own disappearance as a quality to be desired. That perhaps she needed, finally, to live unobserved.

In the financial markets, hindsight is forever 20/20, but foresight is legally blind. And thus, for most investors, market timing is a practical and emotional impossibility.

Neither of us meant for things to be this way. If things went differently, maybe we'd still talk today.

Sometimes I wonder what if this would have been different with us. What if we didnt live so far? what if we hadnt of lied? what if things have changed? but then I realize that I could be here for days going through all the what if's and just have to face reality.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

The lost opportunities of life are contained in the might haves, should haves, would haves, and could haves.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

If the past was what we were meant to see, then behind, not in front, our eyes would be.

I've learned... that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

Very early in my life it was too late.

Hindsight's perfect vision is seldom clouded by context

You can only predict things after they have happened.

In hindsight, I realized I could see into the future. Which is kind of like having premonitions of flashbacks.

There's an old saying that in order to be successful I have to first believe I am capable of it – before it even shows up. That without that inner belief I'll make small decisions without even knowing it that can make it harder to become successful. There's that hindsight thing again and from my perch, two and a half years later – I can see a lot of those little places.

Some last words should never be said.

It is easy to mourn the lives we aren't living. Easy to wish we'd developed other talents, said yes to different offers. Easy to wish we'd worked harder, loved better, handled our finances more astutely, been more popular, stayed in the band, gone to Australia, said yes to the coffee or done more bloody yoga.