Devouring Quote by Anonymous

The pure present is an unattainable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

The Present only has a being in Nature; things Past have a being in the Memory only, but things to come have no being…

— Thomas Hobbes

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

— Richard Chenevix Trench

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” Hoshino looked up, mouth…

— Haruki Murakami

“What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.”

— Anonymous

The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.

— Plutarch

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

— Estela Portillo Trambley

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

— Walter Savage Landor

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

The present is an eternal now.

— Abraham Cowley

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we…

— Rose Wilder Lane

The present is merely a reflection of the past and a solemn future casts a backward glance.

— Samuel Kermis