Chain of events Quote by Anton Chekhov

“...[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief…

— George Eliot Middlemarch

“I knew you would come,” he said, “in the end. I have been waiting a long, long time.” Time seemed to change as he…

— Jan Siegel

“It was funny, Grey thought. Not funny ha-ha but funny strange, the whole idea of time. He’d thought it was one thing but it…

— Justin Cronin

“He listened yet more intently to what was within him, to the past, to see whether that voice of memory truly foretelling the future…

— Stefan Zweig

“Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually experiencing. Only…

— Milan Kundera

“There is titillating pleasure in looking back at the past and asking oneself, 'What would have happened if...' and substituting one chance occurrence for…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“It was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and that one of these other vus would explain succinctly…

— Joseph Heller

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

“It appeared to him strange and marvelous that he should have stopped in the very same place as he used to do, as if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In the rational light of day, he could tell himself that it was better this way, for both of them. The past was the…

— Kyra Dune