Quotes About Present

At this moment" is a rare thing because only sometimes do I step with both feet on the land of the present; usually one foot slides toward the past, the other slides toward the future. And I end up with nothing.

Nada existe de mais difícil do que entregar-se ao instante. Esta dificuldade é dor humana.

For the first time in my life there was a full now. This was the greatest brutality that I had ever come up against.

Nothing is more difficult than surrendering to the instant. That difficulty is human pain. It is ours. I surrender in words and surrender when I paint.

De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.

Hoje me exige hoje mesmo.

Quiero poseer los átomos del tiempo. Y quiero capturar el presente que, por su propia naturaleza, me esta prohibido, el presente se me escapa, la actualidad huye, la actualidad soy yo siempre en presente.

Tengo que pagar el precio. El precio de quien tiene un pasado que sólo se renueva con pasión en el extraño presente. Cuando pienso en lo que ya he vivido me parece que he ido dejando mis cuerpos por el camino.

Of my own death, yes, I was indeed aware, for death was the future and is imaginable, and I had always had time to imagine. But the instant, the very instant - the right now - that is unimaginable, between the right now and the I there is no space: it is just now, inside me.

Aquello que será después es ahora. Ahora es el dominio de ahora. Y mientras dura la improvisación yo nazco.

Mesmo sofrer era bom porque enquanto o mais baixo sofrimento se desenrolava também se existia — como um rio a parte. E também se podia esperar o instante que vinha... que vinha... e de súbito se precipitava em presente e de repente se dissolvia... e outro que vinha... que vinha...

For the present has no hope, and the present has no future: the future will be exactly once again present.

Quero acrescentar, à guisa de informações sobre a jovem e sobre mim, que vivemos exclusivamente no presente pois sempre e eternamente é o dia de hoje e o dia de amanhã será um hoje, a eternidade é o estado das coisas neste momento.

com o correr dos séculos perdi o segredo do Egito, quando eu me movia em longitude, latitude e altitude com ação energética dos elétrons, prótons, nêutrons, no fascínio que é a palavra e sua sombra". Isso que te escrevi é um desenho eletrônico e não tem passado ou futuro: é simplesmente já.

Pois a actualidade não tem esperança, e a actualidade não tem futuro: o futuro será exactamente de novo uma actualidade.

Nunca a vida foi tão atual como hoje: por um triz é o futuro

la esperanza no existe, porque ella no es ya un futuro aplazado, es hoy.

Soy un ser concomitante: reúno en mí el tiempo pasado, el presente y el futuro, el tiempo que late en el tiempo de los relojes.

And all this is in this very instant, is in the now. But at the same time the present instant is completely removed because of the immense magnitude of God.

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evalua­ tion of the interrelationships among the components of the present- day society.

There are benefits to being without nostalgia. Certainly nostalgia and being without nostalgia relieve the past.

Conviction, as Michelstaedter wrote, is the present possession of one's own life and one's own person, the ability to live each moment to the full, not goading oneself madly into burning it up fast and using it with a view to an all too imminent future, thus destroying it in the hope that life -- the whole of life -- may pass swiftly.

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

One does not need to be able to know the future; one only needs to be conversant with the past in order to guide the present, and the future will attend to itself