Time Quote by Eleanor Catton

“In his life he'd passed through long periods of gratefulness and good cheer, but he'd scarcely even imagined this level of thorough contentment with…

— Chad Harbach

“For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his…

— Edmund Morris

“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that…

— Oscar Wilde

“...that distant longing and determination, that knowledge that he was born for something greater than his small past or his sleepy present.”

— Leon Logothetis

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”

— Jack London

“At the age he had attained with his life span short before him he had begun to look upon the human world with the…

— Paulette Jiles

“An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and…

— James Joyce

“I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“He could never be anything more than what he was: the inheritor of weakness and unbridled emotion, a creature possessed by the past, and…

— John Jakes