„I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.“

Malone Dies (1951)
Kontext: Or I might be able to catch one, a little girl for example, and half strangle her, three quarters, until she promises to give me my stick, give me soup, empty my pots, kiss me, fondle me, smile to me, give me my hat, stay with me, follow the hearse weeping into her handkerchief, that would be nice. I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Quelle: Saving Francesca

This Week (18 September 1966)
Kontext: Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

Quelle: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money-That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

On his family
Quelle: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story

[Jamie, Walker, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/from-young-lib-to-senate-linchpin/story-e6frg6p6-1111116755879, From brash Young Liberal to Senate linchpin for Nick Xenophon, The Australian, June 28, 2008, 2009-11-18]

"Reflections and Remarks on Human Life", VI: Right and Wrong, published in Works: Letters and Miscellanies of Robert Louis Stevenson -- Sketches, Criticisms, Etc. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hwe7px (1895), p. 628.
Kontext: It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in the retrospect. We should have been cut-throats to do otherwise. And there's an end. We ought to know distinctly that we are damned for what we do wrong; but when we have done right, we have only been gentlemen, after all. There is nothing to make a work about.

From The 5-Minute Interview http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/the-5minute-interview-paul-smith-singer-446775.html

Quelle: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Quelle: 1880's, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 169 : quote from Renoir's letter to his art-seller Durand-Ruel, 21st November 1881

Quelle: Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996), p. 42

Quelle: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 6, “Tariqat” (p. 296)