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Quotes About Time

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."
~ Vladimir Nabokov
He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.
~ Lady Randolph Churchill
The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.
~ Lauren Beukes
Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.
~ Lewis Mumford
The written word is the link between the past and the future.
~ Lincoln Barnett
Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
~ Margaret Mead
No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.
~ Marie Lu
With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Today's future is Tomorrow's past
~ Mario
Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.
~ Unknown
People often say that it is easier to predict the way things are going to be 10 to 20 years in the future than to predict how it is going to be 3 years from now.
~ Mark Zuckerberg
Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.
~ Martha Beck
The days start to be charged not because tomorrow you're leaving, but because in three weeks you're leaving. The future impinges. So you start to think about the frame.
~ Martha Ronk
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
~ Mason Cooley
The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.
~ Robert Browning
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
~ Blaise Pascal
The past, present, and future, were all equally in gloom.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not speak then to me.
~ William Shakespeare
The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty miles an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
~ C. S. Lewis
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
~ Bob Dylan