A current under sea Picked his bones in whispers.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.4,'Death by Water'.

   Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedesbeforeus.It eludedusthen, but that's no matteröto-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further† And one fine morning† So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

-Fitzgerald, F(rancis) Scott Key
  The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

   It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'West-Running Brook'.

Time has three dimensions and one positive pitch or direction. It is therefore not so much like any river or any sea as like the Sea of Galilee, which has the Jordan running through it and giving a current to the whole.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Creation and Redemption: The Great Sacrifice'. Collected in C Devlin (ed)  The Sermons and Devotional Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), ch.8.

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-Keynes (of Tilton),John Maynard, 1st Baron
  A  Tract on Monetary Reform.