Quotes on Past Present And Future

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Time, though in Eternity, applied_x000D_ _x000D_ To motion, measures all things durable_x000D_ _x000D_ By present, past, and future.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations.

...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.