Quotes About Now

You're not going anywhere.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

She had no history and nothing to plan for. It was all over for the time being. She just was.

The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it's all we'll need.

But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.

Die Zukunft ist zum Glück meistens nur anwesend // als nächster Augenblick, und dieser Zukunftsaugenblick // erfordert Gegenwart, und zwar des Geistes.

Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment.

What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. . . . Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is 'borrowed' from the Now.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know.

New lives always begin tomorrow, […] Never now.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.

I'm happy that the kind of films I'm doing right now is reaching a wider audience, and I'm looking forward to direct Hindi films as well.

I'm part of the original Wiggle fan generation. When I was 6 or 7, I went to one of their concerts with my sister, and we were filmed dancing in the aisle. And now I'm a Wiggle!

I suppose I prefer kind of epic dramas like, oh, I don't know... 'Lawrence Of Arabia' or 'Apocalypse Now'; those are the movies that I have a tendency to be most fond of.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

The term 'celebrity memoir' has gotten such a bad name now, but there used to be a little bit of an art form to it.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

You're always somewhere else. You never do the music where you are." p. 462 Thick to Fitz

there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.