--- title: "14 Past future Quotes By Paulo Coelho" description: "14 Past future quotes by Paulo Coelho. Plus more from Paulo Coelho and more Past future sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/paulo-coelho-10_eternity_past-and-future-exist-only-in-our-memory_2764843.jpg" --- > [Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/past-and-future-exist-only-in-our-memory-the-present-moment-though-is-2/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b91/paulo-coelho-10_eternity_past-and-future-exist-only-in-our-memory_2764843.jpg) > [When two people fall in love, past and future disappear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/when-two-people-fall-in-love-past-and-future-disappear/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c3/paulo-coelho-10_disappear_when-two-people-fall-in-love-past-and-fu_2737885.jpg) > [People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/people-never-leave-we-are-always-here-in-our-past-and-future-lives/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e89/paulo-coelho-10_future_people-never-leave-we-are-always-here-in_3204544.jpg) > [Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested-2/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/faf/paulo-coelho-10_my-future_because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-o_1410932.jpg) > [“I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm only interested in the present. If you can concentrate only on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-only-interested-in/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/paulo-coelho-10_happy-man_i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-fut_1392423.jpg) > [“don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested-only-in-the/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/paulo-coelho-10_future_don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-futur_2701488.jpg) > [“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested-3/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/paulo-coelho-10_future_because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-o_2600415.jpg) > [“Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. It isn;t what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/past-and-future-exist-only-in-our-memory-the-present-moment-though-is/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a60/paulo-coelho-10_past_past-and-future-exist-only-in-our-memory_812773.jpg) > [“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested-4/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/646/paulo-coelho-10_happy-man_because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-o_3228633.jpg) > [“Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01e/paulo-coelho-10_happy-man_because-i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-o_110198.jpg) > [The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-past-and-the-future-become-unimportant-there-is-only-that-moment/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0de/paulo-coelho-10_certainty_the-past-and-the-future-become-unimporta_7741.jpg) > [I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-future-i-m-interested-only-in/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdc/paulo-coelho-10_festivals_i-don-t-live-in-either-my-past-or-my-fut_2050925.jpg) > [We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/we-human-beings-have-enormous-difficulty-in-focusing-on-the-present/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b3/paulo-coelho-10_always-thinking_we-human-beings-have-enormous-difficulty_821816.jpg) > [“Right here and now, you are beginning to wonder: is there really something wrong? Yes, there is. But at this precise moment,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/right-here-and-now-you-are-beginning-to-wonder-is-there-really/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/838/paulo-coelho-10_past-and-future_right-here-and-now-you-are-beginning-to_2911606.jpg) ## Other authors on Past future ## More by Paulo Coelho > [I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-have-inside-me-the-winds-the-deserts-the-oceans-the-stars-and/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/love-will-never-separate-a-man-from-his-personal-legend/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-world-has-a-soul-and-whoever-understands-that-soul-can-also/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/you-dont-choose-your-life-it-chooses-you-theres-no-point-asking-why/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/to-love-is-to-be-in-communion-with-the-other-and-to-discover-in-that/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/it-is-not-enough-to-dream-of-the-impossible-love-it-is-necessary-to/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/eat-when-it-is-time-to-eat-and-walk-when-it-is-time-to-walk/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/people-are-reading-more-and-writing-more-because-of-the-internet-so/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/joy-is-like-sex-it-begins-and-ends-i-want-pleasure-i-want-to-be/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/trudi-se-da-zivis-sjecanja-su-za-starije-ljude/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/i-ve-always-been-a-very-restless-person-i-work-hard-spend-too-much/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/when-someone-leaves-it-s-because-someone-else-is-about-to-arrive/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-past-and-the-future-become-unimportant-there-is-only-that-moment/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/she-didn-t-need-to-understand-the-meaning-of-life-it-was-enough-to/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) > [“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paulo-coelho/the-simpler-the-pose-the-better-the-more-sober-the-more-beautiful/) [Paulo Coelho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paulo-coelho/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/past-future/paulo-coelho/#itemlist", "name": "14 Past future Quotes By Paulo Coelho", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Past and future exist only in our memory. 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