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Quotes About Time

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
~ Tadao Ando
The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only way to change the future is to change the present.
~ Seohyun
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
~ Mary Catherine Bateson
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
~ Amy Hempel
When you cut into the present the future leaks out.
~ William S. Burroughs
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
~ Jean Cocteau
The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~ Jim Bishop
Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past
~ Lupe Fiasco
Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.
~ Wei Wu Wei
I believe you can remember the future as much as the past
~ Meredith Brooks
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
~ Novalis
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.
~ Marina Abramovic
For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.
~ Karl Mannheim
You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.
~ Paul Mooney
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.
~ Townes Van Zandt
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
~ Chanakya
The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.
~ Thomas Hobbes
I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.
~ Lee Krasner
The future projects light, the past only clouds
~ Eileen Gray