Life Quote by David Foster Wallace

“I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.”

— A.B. Shepherd

“There's nothing more, except that I usually sit down until the flames die down and try to think myself back into the past.”

— Dodie Smith

“Know this: even if you’re like us and still doddering around above ground, someone out there from your past is probably pretty sure that…

— Michael Zadoorian

“Thinking of such things like they’d happened years ago already and not just a few weeks back. For once life begins to accelerate it…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“My new life was unstable and unsure, but each new day was shot through with new possibility.”

— Lisa Ko

“For so long this had been my life, but it was all in the past. Now we all had to try and find the…

— Edwidge Danticat

“All this time, I've been so eager to get here that I didn't think much past beyond doing it. Now it feels like there's…

— Emma Lord

“The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“It is a sad moment when I sit back and take a critical inventory of my life. I have never allowed myself to dwell…

— Alessandra Torre

“I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.”

— Sarah Miller

“I’ve tried very hard since then, not to hold everything up against what we had, but it’s impossible. There has been something missing in…

— Kerry Heavens

“I’d spent so much time thinking about the future and about becoming someone I could never be that I’d simply missed the point: I…

— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff