1,208 Quotes About Present

Bear with the present; what will be will be.The future is cloth waiting to be cut.

The past is gone, the present is now, the future lies in far time. Let us make the most of now.

Much of our time is spent in the past or the future, rather than the present. We end up passing through a moment on the way to somewhere else, and in so doing we miss the moment we are in. The past can’t be changed. The future we can’t control.

One shouldn’t live in the past, Parker. You’ll smack into something in the present looking backward and not get a clear view of your future. Trust me.

We were standing by the window, the mist pressed and broke in waves against the panes—and I felt that behind it lurked again the secret, the hidden, the past things, the dampdays of horror, the desolation, the filth, the shreds of a waste life, the perplexity, the misguided frittering away of strength in an aimless existence; but here, before me in the shadow, disconcertingly near, the quiet breathing, the unseizable present—warmth, clear living—I must hold it, I must win it.

Gentleness is like decency and beauty; it is fading away from our universe. Nothing is left but fake shadows, not even the genuine ones. Actually, they are being replaced by rudeness, vulgarity, and ugliness.

The Future is Now. That annoys me because if the future is now, where is the present?

The past is what we make of it, if we know what's is good for us.

The past never enticed me, the same with the future. That left me free to wander and amuse myself.