David Leavitt Quote

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?


The Two Hotel Francforts: A Novel (ed. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2013) - ISBN: 9781608195992


We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection...

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection...

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection...

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection...