Nature of man Quote by Gavin Extence

“The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.”

— Erika Robuck

“Dwell in the past, worry about the future and find misery in the present.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

“the past had been no better or worse than the present—the human brain glossed over horror and hardship and revived what it wanted to…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Living in present without regrets in the past and fear in the future...”

— Brigitte Karey

“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— Babylon 5

“Maybe it would be well understood in this far future time that resilience, determination, refusal to accept defeat, and ability to bounce back from…

— Douglas E. Richards

“Every man and woman he saw, even at a distance, gave him a twist of panic. But he had already grown used to that;…

— V.S. Naipaul

“I find only sadness and melancholy when I wade through the past, even when revisiting good memories. The past is gone; I can neither…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“But I also knew that the human condition leads us to feel alive when confronted with things that we have never imagined, and even…

— Laura Thomas

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savour the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon.”

— Juliana Buhring