Beast Quote by Anonymous

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.

— Albert Camus

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or…

— Marcus Aurelius

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So…

— Marcus Aurelius

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It…

— Marcus Aurelius

A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away…

— Orville Dewey

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

— Antoine Rivarol

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

— W. H. Auden