Before And Now Quotes by Ian Mcewan, Isaac Newton, Anton Yelchin, Annie Barrows and many others.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. It was difficult to come back.
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.
And also, that’s the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they’re doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.
It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn’t mind before, and now he minds.