Fleeting Quote by Marcus Aurelius

Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day…

— Nicholas Sparks

Man lives in time but his life transcends time.

— R.J. Rushdoony

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

— Marcus Aurelius

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

— Ray Kurzweil

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know…

— Anonymous

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man…

— Edith Wharton

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

— Louis L'Amour

The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“Sometimes without conscious realization, our thoughts, our faith, out interests are entered into the past. We talk about other times, other places, other persons,…

— James McBride

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson