Quotes on Past Present

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

...your memories will be muddled and uncataloged - past, present, and imagination all mixed together. The same thing happens in dreams.

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

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

...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.