1,208 Quotes About Present

Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

The future cannot be determined. I can only be experienced as it is occurring. Life doesn't know what it will be until it notices what it has become.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.