Famous quotes containing the words continuous and/or tense:
“I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)