Quotes About Existence

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

I always live in the present. I don't know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

Past is dead Future is uncertain; Present is all you have, So eat, drink and live merry.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.