Quotes About Present

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

Time? Time? Why worry about something that takes care of itself so well? You were born with the habit of consuming time. Be satisfied with that.

The past is never dead. It's not even past; it's always part of the present.

It's more the way it is now than it's ever been

We have no future because our present is too volatile.

When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well. Surely

If you wish to know an era, study its most lucid nightmares. In the mirrors of our darkest fears, much will be revealed. But don't mistake those mirrors for road maps to the future, or even to the present.

Ash," said Lowbeer, fingers extended around the candle as if for warmth, "imagines you a conservative." "Does she?" "Or a romantic, perhaps. She sees your distaste for the present rooted in the sense of a fall from grace. That some prior order, or perhaps the lack of one, afforded a more authentic existence.

Neuromancer] is about the present. It's not really about an imagined future. It's a way of trying to come to terms with the awe and terror inspired […] by the world in which we live.

No, she thought, not new; the old, the always, the now and ever was.

The Count was Prince Humperdink's only confidant. His last name was Rugen, but no one needed to use it - he was the only Count in the country, the title having been bestowed by the Prince as a birthday present some years before, the happening taking place, naturally, at one of the Countess' parties.

DOC    No Ã¢â'¬Â¦ no, Baby. We should never feel bad about what's past. What's in the past can't be helped. You Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you've got to forget it and live for the present. If you can't forget the past, you stay in it and never get out.

Let any one try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

it has been decided that the Fuehrer's Mein Kampf is the greatest of all documents. It… not only contains the greatest but it embodies the purest and truest ethics for the present and future life of our nation.

William Gibson told only half the story: like the future, the past is also here in the present, and just as unevenly distributed.

I remembered those elements in Scile, the little opacities that had always been present, that I'd always been intrigued by, that now seemed to have come to constitute all of him.

He befouled where he was with where he had been.

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

I found the only time I had to shut down—to become mindful of nothing more than the present moment—was whenever I was peeing.

Or is this how humans survive, shrugging off history, immersing themselves in the moment?

He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in a perpetual present.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Life is extremely short and you cannot dance to current affairs.