Full Idea
Powerless against that which has been done, the will is an angry spectator of all things past. The will cannot will backwards; that it cannot break time and time's desire - that is the will's most lonely affliction.
Gist of Idea
The will is constantly frustrated by the past
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra [1884], 2.20)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Thus Spake Zarathustra', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1969], p.161