Present Quotes

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this miser...

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cau...

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is...

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasin...

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment fo...

The present is the now the here through which all future plunges to the past.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is an...

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation foolish prepara...

The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.

In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and pres...

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly vola...

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present which seldom happens to us.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the pre...

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without pa...

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness ...

It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in t...

There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, w...

My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of toda...

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the pre...

The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all...

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to ...

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is...

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm jus...

Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the pr...

...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for eve...

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how ...

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the...

No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear but grateful take the good I find the best of...

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

We can easily manage if we will only take each day the burden appointed to it. But the load will b...

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.