Quotes About Reflection

The past is only the future with the lights on

I write with my past, about the future, for the present

I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating material for future nostalgias.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

The circle is a reminder that each moment is not just the present, but is inclusive of our gratitude to the past and our responsibility to the future.

The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past