The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.


On Love: A Novel (ed. 2006)

Alain de Botton Quotes

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is...

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is...

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is...

The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is...