Quotes About Time

The future has taken root in the present.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

History is rooted in the future

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

The future is just a memory that has yet to be born

Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.

Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

There's no doubt if you could go 5, 10, 15 million years into the future and dig down to 2016, you would be able to find the geological evidence that humans occupied the planet.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

I'm scared of the future. I'm scared of the past. I'm nervous at the moment.

The best meditation I ever had, I haven't had yet. It's in the future, which as anyone knows doesn't exist - anyone who meditates knows. But yet, I will have it someday.

Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.

How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions.

The future is bought with the present.

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it.

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.