Alcohol Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

— Estela Portillo Trambley

“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the…

— Jack Finney

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We…

— Laini Taylor

The present is the past biting into the future.

— Edwin Land

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

— Louis L'Amour

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all…

— Billy Joel

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

— Ziggy Marley

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

— George Carlin

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is…

— R. D. Laing

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding…

— Will Self

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

— J. Michael Straczynski