Georges Duhamel Quotes

When we are young... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago.

I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.

So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

As you get older, you treasure the beautiful things of the past but also see things more clearly.

It was such a whirlwind for us for about three to four years there that, every time we turned around, we were pulled in 90 different directions, and I look back on that now, and they're such wonderful memories, but you kinda wish that you would've taken the time to savor them a little bit more.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it.

Everything looks more beautiful in retrospect.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

Little Zac had it easy - but he didn't realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted. I think going through 'Hairspray' and other projects helped me learn about the business and life in general.

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

Ultimately, however bad a situation is for people, especially if it's a condition of love or some internal dialogue, I think most people would agree that when you look back on it, those times are well remembered.