Quotes About Time

There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

If no-one comes from the future to stop doing it, then how bad of a decision can it really be?

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.

Without a past you can't have a future.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.

We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.

The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

There have been bangs in the past. There will be bangs in the future. We may live in an endless universe.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.