Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Throughout Bakounin's writings there appears again and again the plea for "terrible, total, inexorable, and universal destruction.

time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

"The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

The passion fades, the remorse is eternal.

5051. Time devours all things.

It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.

You are in constant danger of being destroyed.

So eager are our people to obliterate the present.

It is the future that creates his present. All is an interminable chain of longing.

Hellas has been transformed to an endless bedlam.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.