“Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.”
Source: The Stochastic Man (1975), Chapter 29 (p. 161)
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“…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 51
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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.

Original: Molti pensieri spesso ci divorano. Tutti abbiamo un passato più o meno bello e tutti possiamo andare in tilt, ma considerare le esperienze vissute come un'opportunità di apprendimento... ci aiuterà ad amare il presente e il futuro della vita.
Source: prevale.net

Misattributed, "What surprises you most about humanity?"