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 think of was a fortune teller I'd spoken to a few years ago, and how full of shit she'd turned out to be.
Yahtzee CroshawTags: death humour hindsight dying black-humor
It is easy to be wise after the event.
Arthur Conan DoyleNo way, man. I got one rule as a driver.”
“What’s that?”
“Never look in da rearview mirror.”
“Never?" We drifted into the left-hand lane, cutting off a cab.
“It’s not healthy to keep a’ watchin’ what you leavin’ behind.
Tags: hindsight
Hindsight’s a wonderful thing,” Klara said. “If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
Kate AtkinsonTags: hindsight
People change, though, especially after they are dead.
Margaret AtwoodTags: identity idealism reflection hindsight reputation impressions redefine redefining
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 could well be argued that in making my decision...I was perhaps not entirely aware of the full implications of what I was doing. Indeed, it might even be said that this small decision of mine constituted something of a key turning point; that that decision set things on an inevitable course towards what eventually happened.
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.... What would have transpired, one may ask, had one responded slightly differently...? And perhaps—occurring as it did around the same time as these events?
Tags: past reflection hindsight reflective regrets retrospect turning-points
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.
Lee SmithTags: hindsight aging good-times heyday on-agate-hill
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