Present Quotes

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Very few men properly speaking live at present but are providing to live another time.

One of the schools of Tlön goes so far as to negate time; it reasons that the present is indefinite,...

Whether pleasant or dismal, the past is always a safe territory, if only because it is already exper...

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coercive...

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present it...

If you remember your past too well you start blaming your present for it. Look what they did to me, ...

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to ...

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.

If my twelve-year-old self, of whom I had grown rather fond, thinking about him, were to reproach me...

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imaginat...

..the past kept pricking at me and I knew that all the elements of those nineteen days in July were ...

He ought to let the past keep its glow and not try to mix it with what he had in the present.

Now or never was the time.

The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what sho...

If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the na...

We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, ...

If you would understand the present, you must come to know the past.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at h...

Few of us ever live in the present we are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what ...

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

Fuck the past. This was the present.

The future depends on what we do in the present.

The future depends on what you do today.

Everyman's life lies within the present for the past is spent and done with and the future is unce...

Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an ar...

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the prese...

If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense...

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth li...

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite to-day is big with blessings.

T'were too absurd to slight for the hereafter the day's delight!

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day but it is the life of every day from...

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessi...

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each pres...

We should kill our pasts with each passing day. Blot them out, so that they will not hurt. Each pres...

Memory is the enemy of wonder

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum...

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want hi...

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

I just take one day. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not come. We have only today to love Jesus.

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, ...

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should...

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The ...

He growled at morning noon and night And trouble sought to borrow Although today the sky was bri...

Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. D...

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Whic...

Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains...

That still did not invalidate their purity in his eyes, so long as they continued to live the way th...

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

If I were the Devil . . . I mean, if I were the Prince of Darkness, I would of course, want to engul...

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do ...

If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way y...

That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a p...

We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the day.We feel, ...

And I have fitted up some chambers thereLooking towards the golden Eastern air,And level with the li...

I would have no need for the Memory Of Things past if those which were Present were more agreeable

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d r...

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before u...

Live now believe me wait not till tomorrow gather the roses of life today.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.

We can see well into the past we can guess shrewdly in to the future but that which is rolled up a...

Live wastes itself while we are preparing to live.

With the past I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.

Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but...

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Y...

But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, And less in ...

No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the prese...

The future was becoming past, everything vanished into the void, and reaching back to grasp for some...

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? Wha...

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and...

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken...

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me ...

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels li...

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you w...

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment and we are f...

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our mome...

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

In the past, I always used to be looking for answers. Today, I know there are only questions. So I j...

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no ...

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living prese...

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open f...

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only ...