Present tense Quote by Lionel Shriver

“Indeed time has that ultimate capacity to render the passions of the past when recalled in the present as no more than grandiloquent gestures.”

— F. Sionil José

“I've spent my entire existence trying to create this perfect fairytale happy ever after future; bending fate to the way I thought it should…

— Christine Zolendz

“The present was always paramount, in a way that thrust you forward: empty, but also free. Whatever stories you told over to yourself and…

— Tessa Hadley

“I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in…

— Andrew Solomon

“Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.”

— Jason Myers

“The past defines us as much as the present. By never knowing my past, I was never sure of who I was. Because mine…

— Arlene J. Chai

“In that most mundane of actions, I had one of those moments, the kind you remember for a lifetime, the kind that slow down…

— Sarah A. Denzil

“Why did things always have to feel so fleeting?”

— Kim Askew

“What occurred did so because I was open to it, and not because fate and I met at a certain angle. I had plenty…

— Rachel Kushner

“It was a long time ago , but people make mistakes when they think they can barry the past . It can simlpy flow…

— Anonymous

“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.”

— César Aira