Past and future Quotes

In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.

— Charles Henry Parkhurst

In the grand collage that is Dada, past and future are equally usable.

— Andrei Codrescu

“Control is an illusion that you must give up.”

— Grace Sara

Happy Veterans Day to all present, past and future service men and women.

— Anonymous

“Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.”

— Grace Sara

“You invoke a new future when you envision your past in the light of your present.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

— T. S. Eliot

“The past and future are what’s complicated. It’s the present that’s simple.”

— David Levithan

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us jettison the unhygienic burden of past and future from our physical and mental systems. Let us become free and powerful.…

— T Joseph Benziger

The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.

— Nhat Hanh

“Don’t dwell in the past. You may miss the opportunity to enter the door of the future.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it,…

— Alice Hoffman

I got myself stuck between past and future again. TRUST me, its such a horrible feeling -_-.

— JezzSwaG

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful…

— Henry David Thoreau

Past and future have no power over you. Just the present - and even that can be minimized.

— Marcus Aurelius

Now in Life! Now is not just a word, it is our present and most important in our life as we can't…

— Ayaan Chawla

“Today you are no longer a victor nor victim of the past and future, today is completely independent, there are no restrictions;…

— Noel DeJesus

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of…

— Saint Augustine

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous,…

— Haruki Murakami

“Moonless nights haunt me. They evoke my once carefree life when I dreamed without doubt to what my future could be. I…

— H.S. Crow

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They made figures of brass, and tried to induce souls to indwell them. In some accounts we read that they succeeded; Friar…

— Aleister Crowley

All the communions of a life-time are one communion.All the communions of all men now living are one communion.All the communions of…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Big discoveries call for even bigger responsibility, since they come with the biggest hazards, if they get into the wrong hands. As…

— Sima B. Moussavian

“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.…

— Eckhart Tolle

“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole. Don’t try to picture everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick…

— Marcus Aurelius

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember…

— Eckhart Tolle

“I have learned to accept myself and rest in the fact that I am not defined by a scale or by someone…

— Michelle Aguilar

“His life had been tied to the past. He’d seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history—a known…

— Thomas Pynchon

“What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down.…

— Douglas Harding

“As an Asian American woman within black radical circles, Grace surely was anomalous, but this raised no significant concerns or barriers to…

— Stephen M. Ward

“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That…

— Andrew Solomon

“Telling me I’m pretty is nice and all, but if you really want to make my day, tell me I inspired you…

— J.M. Richards

“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the…

— Eckhart Tolle

“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all…

— Chaim Potok

“The past is gone and the future is still to happen. Only the present moment is real. I believe we all know…

— Franco Santoro