PRESENT QUOTES

quotations about the present

Present quote

The flower of the present rosily blossomed.

ALDOUS HUXLEY

Brave New World

Tags: Aldous Huxley


Any moment called NOW is always full of possibles.

CHINA MIÉVILLE

Kraken

Tags: China Miéville


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

Tags: Henri Bergson


The present moment is a powerful deity.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

EMMA GOLDMAN

My Disillusionment with Russia

Tags: Emma Goldman


NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

SINCLAIR LEWIS

It Can't Happen Here

Tags: Sinclair Lewis


The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

The Living City

Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright


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

Tags: Samuel R. Delany


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

Tags: Tennessee Williams


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

Tags: Eckhart Tolle


Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses

Tags: James Joyce


We should not expect all the present to be as good as the best of the past.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

Tags: Lewis F. Korns


Today is the first and last day of forever.

STEPHENIE MEYER

Breaking Dawn

Tags: Stephenie Meyer


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

Tags: Ken Kesey


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


The present is the food of the future.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


The past is always judged by the present.

NEITH BOYCE

Enemies

Tags: Neith Boyce


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

Tags: Henri Bergson


Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

ROGER ZELAZNY

He Who Shapes

Tags: Roger Zelazny


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