Quotes on Before And Now

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.