Death and dying Quote by Anne Enright

“Her past, she fears, is eclipsing her present.”

— Cristina García

“She would say that what is past, one cannot change, so each backward glance is a bit of the present slipping away.”

— James Conroyd Martin

“She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive…

— Danielle Steel

“She had a slightly dizzying sense of being overtaken by time, the future becoming the present before she was ready.”

— Tom Perrotta

“I saw her future in my body and face, and her past was alive in me.”

— Linda Hogan

“... hoping that if she just walked down the same street fate would whirl her backward in time until she was once more (fill…

— Alice Hoffman

“She was starting to suspect that facing up to the nightmare of the past is what gives you the power to build your future.”

— Lev Grossman

“She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the…

— Wendell Berry

“The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles…

— Cecil Baldwin

“I just want to show her that her life is worth living, that she can't let her past dictate her future.”

— S.A. Rolls

“She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning…

— Luke Davies