“Pleasure is always in the past or in the future, never in the present.”
Il piacere è sempre o passato o futuro, non mai presente.
29th September 1823, Festival of Saint Michael the Archangel.
Zibaldone (1898)
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Italian poet, philosopher and writer 1798–1837Related quotes
“If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.”
Fausto Cercignani (1941) Italian scholar, essayist and poet
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“I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.”
Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid., p. 118
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Vivo sempre no presente. O futuro, não o conheço. O passado, já o não tenho.
“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
Source: "Some Perplexities about time: with an attempted solution" (1925), p. 149. as cited in: Jonathan Gorman, "The transmission of our understanding of historical time." Historia Social y de la Educación 1.2 (2012): 129-152.
“There was no future and no past. The present was eternity.”
Statement about perceptions he experienced in early clinical experiments with LSD. How Do We Know Who We Are? : A Biography of the Self (1997)
