La vie Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is we who move through time, not the reverse. When we walk beyond any one of life’s instants, it becomes nothing more than…

— Andrew Levkoff

The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and…

— Robert Fritz

In some ways, I believe that we are moving into a post-historical period, for lack of a better term. A time when whatever functioned…

— Mark Pesce

Art of all periods teaches us that humanity changes, and that a period, once past, never returns.

— Philipp Otto Runge

We all live in the space between one moment and eternity. We meet and part. Everyone lives their lives to the fullest in a…

— Accel World

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

— John Berger

The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.

— Sister Parish

Perhaps it's true you can't go back in time, but you can return to the scene of a love, of a crime, of happiness,…

— Eric Weiner

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but…

— Eleanor Robson Belmont

Our lives fade behind us before we die.

— John Updike

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future; we wish…

— Gloria Whelan

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne