Becoming Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all…

— Lois Tilton

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into…

— George Eliot

She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.

— Markus Zusak

“The dull gray days of the preceding winter and spring, so uneventless and monotonous, seemed more associated with what she cared for now above…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Things happened, as soon as they had they were in the past, once they were, there was nothing you could do. Days and nights…

— Alan Judd

“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing to her…

— Doris Lessing

The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.

— David Nicholls

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that…

— Dean Koontz

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die — to give of ourselves wholly to the demands of the…

— Philip Kapleau

“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them, how she…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that…

— Albert Camus