Atmosphere Quote by Novalis

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single…

— D.T. Suzuki

The present hardly exists, after all-it becomes the past even as it happens. A tricky medium, time - and central to the concerns of…

— Penelope Lively

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

— Chogyam Trungpa

“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which can fill…

— Dag Hammarskjold

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

— Simon Van Booy

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

— Haruki Murakami

If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.

— Walter Kirn

The present is merely a reflection of the past and a solemn future casts a backward glance.

— Samuel Kermis

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

— Walter Savage Landor

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

— A. J. P. Taylor

The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy.…

— Wyndham Lewis