Forever Quote by Louis L'Amour

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

— Ayi Kwei Armah

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

— Henry David Thoreau

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is…

— R. D. Laing

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

— Eckhart Tolle

The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding…

— Will Self

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

— Ziggy Marley

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility…

— Fernando Pessoa

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the…

— Philip Pullman

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that…

— Andre Aciman

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that…

— J. Michael Straczynski

I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between…

— Jonathan Hull

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to…

— Sigmund Freud