Past Future Quotes

To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.

It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

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?

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.

Whatever is newly expensive has two attributes: wonderful past returns and, in most cases, lousy future returns.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

We live in the moment. We're not thinking about the future right now. We're not thinking about the past, you know. We're living in this moment right here and it's a sweet moment to live in.

God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Fiction offers escape but it also interrogates the world we live in, whether the past, present or future.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a future

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor

The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled.

Wisely improve the Present. It is thine.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

Memory is set up to use the past to imagine the future.

Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.

In the future as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

Let go the past, let go the future, and let go the present (front, back, middle). Crossing to the farther shore of existence, with mind released everywhere, do not further undergo birth and decay.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.