1,208 Quotes About Present

If we abandon the past in the pursuit of the future, we’ve left all of the construction materials behind. So, we might show up at the site, but we’re not going to be building anything.

A poet is born in present, lives in past and thinks in future.

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.

At a certain point, life becomes less about who you're becoming and more about who you've become. What you used to think of as the future has become the present, and you can't help but wonder if your life wouldn't be better if you'd just lived it more fully in the past. But how could you have? You were too busy thinking about the future!

Time passed, turning everything to ice.Under the ice, the future stirred.If you fell into it, you died.It was a timeof waiting, of suspended action.I lived in the present, which wasthat part of the future you could see.The past floated above my head,like the sun and moon, visible but never reachable.It was a timegoverned by contradictions, as inI felt nothing andI was afraid.

Build your best version at the present, to have the best you might expect to see in the future.

All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.

To look to the future and then back to the past and be unable to make neither ‘hide nor hair’ of either suggests that we should begin planning the former so that the latter starts making sense.

The future must be sighted with a noble eye. The present human being requires nobility.