PRESENT QUOTES
quotations about the present
The flower of the present rosily blossomed.
ALDOUS HUXLEY
Brave New World
Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
Kraken
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
HENRI BERGSON
Matter and Memory
NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
It Can't Happen Here
The present moment is a powerful deity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
attributed, Day's Collacon
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
EMMA GOLDMAN
My Disillusionment with Russia
There's a river crashing by us. But we can only go down to drink one place and it's called "now."
SAMUEL R. DELANY
Nova
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The Living City
When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
ECKHART TOLLE
The Power of Now
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Today is the first and last day of forever.
STEPHENIE MEYER
Breaking Dawn
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
We should not expect all the present to be as good as the best of the past.
LEWIS F. KORNS
Thoughts
We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
KEN KESEY
attributed, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.
LAINI TAYLOR
Dreams of Gods & Monsters
All that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
HENRI BERGSON
Creative Evolution
The present is the food of the future.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
The past is always judged by the present.
NEITH BOYCE
Enemies
There is no moment like the present; not only so, but moreover, there is no moment at all, that is, no instant force and energy, but in the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him, can have no hope from them afterward; they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world.
MISS EDGEWORTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.
ROGER ZELAZNY
He Who Shapes