Federico Fellini Quotes

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

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

And your own life while it's happening to you never has any atmosphere until it's a memory.

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.

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

Life moves so fast. You gotta document the good times, man.

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

There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

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.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

Going back, I wish I could have been in the moment a little bit more. I can't change it, but hindsight definitely makes me appreciative of the moment now - even if it's hard, or exhausting, it's all a part of the experience.

I have to remind myself sometimes to look back and see what brought me to where I'm at.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

There are endless what-ifs that have really made me have an appreciation for my journey and everything I have experienced along the way.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

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

Yesterday is just a memory.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

The thing is I never want to be an observer, it's only in retrospect that I wish I had observed.

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

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

Realize, how many classics I gave you/Perhaps if you think back you'll realize that I made you