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Quotes About Time

We're all just memories of our future selves.
~ Reggie Watts
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future
~ Robert Smithson
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
~ Gautama Buddha
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
~ Voltaire
If I did not simply live from one moment to another, it would be impossible for me to be patient, but I only look at the present, I forget the past, and I take good care not to forestall the future.
~ Therese of Lisieux
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
~ John F. Kennedy
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The future depends on what we do in the present.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The future happens. No matter how much we scream.
~ Unknown
The past is only the future with the lights on
~ Mark Hoppus
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I write with my past, about the future, for the present
~ Eyedea
Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.
~ Nicole Kidman
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last
~ Sabrina Carpenter
The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.
~ Kazuaki Tanahashi
The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
~ Alvin Toffler
The future is purchased by the present.
~ Samuel Johnson
I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.
~ Doc Brown
You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.
~ Cassandra Clare
Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
~ Dean Acheson
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
~ Zadie Smith
Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.
~ Joseph Campbell