Top 100 Quotes About The Present
#1. Without a future, the present serves no purpose,
Jose Saramago
#2. The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Bruce Catton
#3. All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.
Fernand Braudel
#4. Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
L.R. Knost
#5. It was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.
Louise Penny
#6. A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
Henrik Ibsen
#7. I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future.
Ellen Goodman
#8. The present is always invisible because its environmental. No environment is perceptible, simply because it saturates the whole field of attention.
Marshall McLuhan
#10. The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
#11. True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.
Martin Buber
#12. The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.
Marshall McLuhan
#13. Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.
Penelope Lively
#14. Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#15. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
Alan Lightman
#16. Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.
F. Sionil Jose
#17. Do not say that the past was better than the present. Virtues are what make the good times and vices that go bad.
Augustine Of Hippo
#18. Neither man spoke of the past. Darcy could not rid himself of its power but Wickham lived for the moment, was sanguine about the future and reinvented the past to suit his audience, and Darcy could almost believe that, for the present, he had put the worst of it completely out of his mind. p.172
P.D. James
#19. The past no longer exists, and the future does not yet exist," Morik reasoned. "So live in the present and enjoy it, my friend. Enjoy every moment.
R.A. Salvatore
#20. AGHAST (AGHA'ST) adj.[either the participle of agaze,(see AGAZE) and then to be written agazed, or agast,or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.]Struck with horrour, as
Samuel Johnson
#21. I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
Nick Hornby
#22. 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.
Tadao Ando
#23. Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
Anthony De Mello
#24. The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.
Eckhart Tolle
#25. Investing is a simple process of taking into account the present value and future value. The other major factor to understand here, is what you lose as a result of inaction. Consider what you can gain and what you can lose in your decision.
J.R. Rim
#26. When he makes you a promise, he is assuring you that however the world changes, his word will not change. Thus, he is creating the future inside the present. Even more: he is creating the present inside the present. He is establishing on stationary point amid the infinite flux of events.
Stephen Mitchell
#27. You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.
Paulette Goddard
#28. I will practice coming back to the present moment ... not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out ...
Nhat Hanh
#29. Life is a one-way journey to be enjoyed, so enjoy the beauty of the present moment with all your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#30. The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.
Charles De Lint
#31. We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our true potential in the present, based on the limitations of our past.
Hal Elrod
#32. Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.
Zig Ziglar
#33. I deeply understood that there is no such thing as an isolated act. This particular act had looped and wrapped and folded in on itself and other acts, pushed forward, pulled a hidden past into the present, and placed it in front of me as if to say: Isn't this a fine moment? Who knew?
Patricia Florin
#34. We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future.
S. N. Goenka
#35. Under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.
Robert Anton Wilson
#36. Yes, after all, this by now was his customary loneliness: there was little else he desired for the present than the hospitality of the dark.
Walter De La Mare
#37. The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#38. If this is true, then neither the past nor the present is normative. It is the canon of Scripture that renders both relative and open to correction.
Michael S. Horton
#39. It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.
Adi Alsaid
#40. There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#41. We care too much about what happens to be there as a result of history. I worry even more that we care too much for the past and not enough for the present and the near present.
Nicholas Serota
#42. We view the past, and achieve our understanding of the past, only through the eyes of the present
E.H. Carr
#43. Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#44. I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.
Shirley Maclaine
#45. The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so in the present day.
Anonymous
#46. The most important time in life is the present.
Aitzaz Ahsan
#47. Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#48. There was a sense of permanence about Egypt; the past was never far from the present.
John P. McKay
#49. While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#50. Positive thinkers create large pictures of what they want in their minds and can predict the future from the present.
Israelmore Ayivor
#51. The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
Alphonsus Liguori
#52. 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.
Henry David Thoreau
#53. Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.
Roland Barthes
#54. I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk.
Cinda Williams Chima
#56. Despite the present, temporary interests that Israel has in common with France and Britain, you ought not to forget that the strength of Israel and her future are bound up with the United States.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#57. If past and future contained nothing but struggle and scarcity, all attention fell upon the present. A psychic resolve for relief from a sense of crisis overwhelmed the practical resolve to think about the future. Rather
Timothy Snyder
#58. I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.
Loreena McKennitt
#59. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#60. We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
William Hazlitt
#61. In order to live in the present, we have to learn how to feel safe even when a situation feels threatening to us.
John Kuypers
#62. We train ourselves all through our life to waste energy following our inner narratives. We are often unconsciously driven by our fears, worries and fantasies. Enter the space of Awareness of the present moment with no emotional filters, no regrets nor hopes, no daydreaming and no nightmares.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#63. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.
Macrina Wiederkehr
#64. At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
Harry S. Truman
#65. Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.
Deepak Chopra
#66. We also know that religion, as the Marxists have always insisted, has, too often, like an opiate, tended to put people to sleep to the reality and the need for the present struggle for peace and justice.
Dorothy Day
#67. Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.
Thomas Jefferson
#68. We are different from previous generations of conservatives ... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.
Paul Weyrich
#69. In a world which contains the present moment, why discriminate? Nothing should be named lest by so doing we change it.
Virginia Woolf
#70. If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day.
Kathleen Norris
#72. The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as "temporal exhaustion": "If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.
Stewart Brand
#73. Dogs, I had reflected, are lucky to have shorter memories and fewer apprehensions about the future - they know how to enjoy the present.
Margret Wittmer
#74. In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
Asa Don Brown
#75. The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.
Margaret MacMillan
#76. The present time, together with the past, shall be judged by a great jovialist.
Nostradamus
#77. Well, Mr. Antichrist, that's all for the present!
Albert Camus
#78. What distinguishes a technological world is that the terms of nature are obscured; one need not live quite in the present or the local.
Rebecca Solnit
#79. Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.
Julie Walters
#80. Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.
Alec-Tweedie
#81. It's in vain, Trot, to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present.
Charles Dickens
#82. My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#83. You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past. Don't let foolish memories get in the way of the makings of new ones.
Emily Coussons
#84. Happiness is something you design for the present; it is not something you postpone for the future.
Pravin Agarwal
#85. The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.
James Russell Lowell
#86. Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.
J.R. Rim
#87. My happiness with the future and the present depends on my ability to let the past go and make peace with it.
A.J. Darkholme
#88. No matter how great an achievement you had a year ago, no matter how momentous and critically acclaimed it was, it is still in the past and has no real bearing on the present moment.
Chris Matakas
#89. To envision the future; you must forget the past and make the present a memory
Jeremy Aldana
#90. So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.
Kristin Harmel
#91. For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#92. I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
Francesca Annis
#93. Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#94. Hatred also is short lived; but that which makes the splendor of the present and the glory of the future remains forever unforgotten
here we bless your simplicity but do not envy your folly.
Thucydides
#95. I'm not worried about the future as much as I'm worried about the past. About keeping my memories real and not sacrificing them to match the present.
Zoe Trope
#96. If you can remain aware of your awareness, that is the present state of mind.
Roshan Sharma
#97. It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.
Ashwin Sanghi
#98. By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.
Michel Onfray
#99. Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin.
Andres Neuman
#100. The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.
William Whewell
