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Quotes About Time

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.
~ Bible
The present is elastic to embrace infinity.
~ Louis Anspacher
The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The present is an eternal now.
~ Abraham Cowley
The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
~ Abraham Cowley
The present is an edifice which God cannot rebuild.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.
~ Joseph McSorely
The present is all you have for your certain possession.
~ Anonymous
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
~ H. L. Mencken
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
~ D. H. Lawrence
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The present offers itself to our touch for only an instant of time and then eludes the senses.
~ Plutarch
The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks.
~ Arthur Miller
Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.
~ Sherwood Anderson
Yesterday is a cancelled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash in hand. Spend It!
~ John W Newbern
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
~ Simone Weil
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
The past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, nor just for tomorrow, but in the here and now.
~ Carl Sandburg
Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
~ Edward BulwerLytton
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone, the mind those of the past and future as well.
~ Epicurus
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.
~ Samuel Johnson
The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it. ... Time is now. We have only today.
~ Charles Hummell
We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly in to the future; but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson