Ziyan

“Men are such constant fools!”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Let me pull myself out of these waters. But they heap themselves on me; they sweep me between their great shoulders; I am turned; I am tumbled. I am stretched, among these long lights, these long waves, these endless paths, with people pursuing, pursuing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“I am sickened by time, by the image of that vanished self, though I care nothing for her because I prefer myself now. But that self is contained in the present one, along with the others, like millions of Russian dolls.”
― Annie Ernaux, Getting Lost

“… every man lives only this present time, which is an indivisible point, and that all the rest of his life is either past or it is uncertain.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations