Quotes About Present

science fiction is not about the future but about the possibilities inherent in the present.

There was only this, the past that you carried in your memory, and the present, which was undecipherable, and the unknowable future, which might already be inside you, leaking out in unreadable script but which you could never in a million years guess.

Fine. We can make it a combination Christmas and birthday present. You decide. I'll leave it up to you". If it were up to him, he would give him everything: sun and moon, eternal happiness, serene and uncomplicated.

He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.

Me pregunto cómo sería el mundo si todos viviéramos realmente como si no hubiera mañana.

Even these extinct medieval customs have a place in our story, for they are fascinating examples of the breadth of human experiences, past and present, and they are, of course, integral parts of the medieval world that we seek not merely to observe but also to understand.

Most people don't even understand the present. Why should they understand glimpses of the future?

Precious Child... nothing matters but the moment. There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

But the world of the eye is causing us to live increasingly in a perpetual present, flattened by speed and simultaneity. Visual images have become commodities, as Harvey points out: 'a rush of images from different spaces almost simultaneously, collapsing the world's spaces into a series of images on a television screen […] the image of places and spaces becomes as open to production and ephemeral use as any other [commodity].

Warten ist Gegenwart. Das generelle Verhältnis des Menschen zur Zeit. Warten zeichnet Gottes Umrisse an die Wand. Warten ist jenes Durchgangsstadium, das wir als unsere Existenz bezeichnen!

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the day as the time we really live, the only time that matters, because the stuff we do by day somehow makes us who we are. We feel the same way about the present. We say, let bygones be bygones... Water under the bridge. But there is no day without night, no wakefulness without sleep, no present without past. They are constantly somersaulting over each other.

Bajó los escalones sin mirar atrás, sintiendo la mirada de D'Alaqua, sabiendo que nadie tiene poder sobre el pasado, que éste no se puede cambiar y que el presente es un reflejo de lo que fuimos, sólo eso, y que sólo hay futuro si no se da ni un solo paso atrás.

sabiendo que nadie tiene poder sobre el pasado, que éste no se puede cambiar y que el presente es un reflejo de lo que fuimos, sólo eso, y que sólo hay futuro si no se da ni un solo paso hacia atrás.

pasado nos acompaña en el presente y lo hará en el futuro. No podemos cambiarlo, pero sí intentar que ese pasado no se convierta en un problema

One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present.

Love was the best present of all...

You have to live each hour as if it's your last

Right here, right now, in this moment, in this garden, you're perfect.

You have to live each hour as if it's your last and each day as if you were immortal

One really never knows what tomorrow holds. That's why you make the most of every moment - good, bad, or indifferent - and own it like only you can.

The past has to inform the present.

I always love stories that do a big time leap where the past informs the present, where you find out what became of some characters years later.