Past Future Quotes

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

Everybody needs a place they can go to rest, sheltered from the past and the future. A place you can live one moment at a time.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

Reason lives on the systematization of the past, but Faith is the promise of the future.

Attention-yes! That's present! And present, you see, makes past and future.

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

If you want to know what your thoughts were like in the past, look at your body today. If you want to know what your body will look like in the future, look at your thoughts today.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future.

The only important property of evils of the past is that they not be repeated in the future, in any way, shape, or form.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason, in a way that animals can’t do.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.

..Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

Life only makes any sense if we can see time how God does. Past, present, and future all at once.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

People of vision gauge decisions on the future; the story of the past cannot be rewritten.

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.

Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

I smile when I think of the past and get excited about the future.

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

The written word is the link between the past and the future.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

We can't live our lives obsessing about the past or mourning the future. We have a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to live every moment of our lives the best we can.