Quotes About Time

Oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Let the past be what it was, the present what it is, the future the best it can be.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

The future is created through memory.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

The past has revealed to me the structure of the future.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did we come from, what happens next?' The ability to remember the past helps us plan the future.

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

What is now in the past was once in the future

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

The world is changing so fast that the future goes past soon as the present.

The future is the keeper of the memories of the past

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?