We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The present becomes the past instantaneously. Look back by all means but remember that you’re moving forward.” — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant. — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
In present we left past,In future we regret past, In past we live present, past, present and future always interconnected with each… — Kiran Copy Share Image
“...it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish the present than to find an if from the past. There is no if in real life… — Yuan Ding Copy Share Image
“This palace,' he had said, 'is a small city, past lying close to present like one shoe next to another. If you… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The past is like the night: dark but sacred. It's the time when most of us sleep, so we think of the… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand… — Nate Copy Share Image
The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
You have to keep being curious. The notion that the present is different than the past, and the future will be different… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
“Time was being served behind the walls of Newgate jail, and wasted by philosophers in cafés on the Strand; it was lost… — Sarah Perry Copy Share Image
Live in the present, the past has its lessons from which you've learned but it's long gone, so leave it behind you… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“At the moment I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We know one another. This is the present. There is no past and no future. Here I am washing my hands, and… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a… — Christopher Ricks Copy Share Image
“Leave No Trace (bad language) Sometimes she will speak of him as present, sometimes as past, and sometimes as always. That is… — Hannah Nyala Copy Share Image
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present… — Melanie Gideon Copy Share Image
“You can never go back to a specific moment. That's why it's important to live in the present and not the past.… — Emily Coussons Copy Share Image
Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
The future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Living in present is painful when the past was awesome, and every day we live with the thought of past and the… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
“He would come to feel that history, even more than memory, distorts the present of the past by focusing on big events… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
Live your life in present. You may take past as learning lesson & hope for the future but you can make out… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
“This is what Lilly loves about London, that every building, street, common and square, has had different uses, that everything was once… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past — John Berger Copy Share Image
The only way to get over something, is to make the choice to move on, no matter how hard it seems to… — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
