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Quotes About Existence

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.
~ T. S. Eliot
The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
~ Janet Frame
The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.
~ George Harrison
Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.
~ Billy Corgan
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.
~ Alan Watts
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.
~ Paulo Coelho
But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
~ Alexander Pope
I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.
~ Frank McCourt
It's not about the past or the future, it's about right now.
~ Unknown
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
~ James Joyce
Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~ Simone Weil
We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
~ Susan Beth Pfeffer
There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.
~ Neil Turok
If the future and the past really exist, where are they?
~ Saint Augustine
Well, the past is gone, I know that. The future isn't here yet, whatever it's going to be. So, all there is, is this. The present. That's it.
~ Bill Murray
The future is an infinite succession of presents.
~ Howard Zinn
The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.
~ Alan Watts
I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.
~ Andrew Wyeth
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh