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Quotes About Time

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
~ R. D. Laing
He gave her what no one else had ever been able to give. A past to cherish. A present to enjoy. A future to anticipate
~ Gena Showalter
It seems like for the last 10 years, I've just been investing in the future.
~ Tao Lin
Most of us are worrying about the future so much that we can't enjoy the present.
~ Harold Sherman
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
~ Iris Murdoch
It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...
~ William P. Young
It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?
~ H. Rider Haggard
The future, and the future alone, is the home of explanation.
~ Henry Dwight Sedgwick
It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.
~ Indira Gandhi
Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present
~ Jean Paul
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
~ Terence McKenna
I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.
~ Sylvia Day
As an actor, I only play what is in the moment, rather than in the future, but sometimes the past is more important than what is coming up in the future.
~ John Barrowman
To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.
~ John Clare
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
~ Tom Stoppard
The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.
~ Kate Chopin
Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.
~ Kate Morton
Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.
~ Kate Morton
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
~ Kathleen Norris
Sacrifice - the future has it´s price, and today is only yesterday's tomorrow.
~ Ken Hensley
And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
~ Khalil Gibran
Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you
~ Katy Perry