“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
Source: The Day of the Triffids
St. I
Adonais (1821)
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
John Wyndham book The Day of the Triffids
Source: The Day of the Triffids
“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)
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
Prometheus
Poems (1851), Prometheus
Context: Now shall I become a common tale,
A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world;
Unchanging record of unceasing change.
Eternal landmark to the tide of time.
Swift generations, that forget each other,
Shall still keep up the memory of my shame
Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.
“I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.”
John Grisham book The Street Lawyer
Source: The Street Lawyer
“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
To Jacques Mercanton, on the structure of Ulysses, as quoted in James Joyce: The Critical Heritage (1997) by Robert H. Deming, p. 22
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet
"Helen of Troy"
Helen of Troy and Other Poems (1911)
“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician