Past Present And Future Quotes

“All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“If from the Past, you have learned
At present, you would be less concerned
About how the future will be turned.”
― Ricardo Derose

“Everything I’ve done and everything I’ve been is present in the same place. But we still think the thing that has just happened, or is about to happen, we think that’s the most important thing. My memories aren’t my memories, my present isn’t present, it’s all the same thing . . .”
― Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die

“Hecate watched the maelstrom of thoughts flash through his mind. The past. The feel of her soft skin, the press of her naked flesh, their mutual need. Hands running through hair, lifting, entangling. The present. Cypress and wind; fire and union in the void.
The future. Red flowers clinging to a tree that rose from the field of gray, branches entwining through others' branches. Red, ripe fruit hung on interlocked boughs. Radiating out from the tree came soft grasses and flowers that spread over immeasurable ground. Hecate imparted in three voices what she saw. "Embrace and cherish these visions, Aidoneus. They belong to both of you.”
― Rachel Alexander, Receiver of Many

“Fortunately, time-travel does not exist. With it, the human race would try to solve past mistakes in isolation, erase any knowledge gleaned from making them, and create a chain reaction of unforeseen consequences. These could destroy the past, along with the present and future simultaneously. Time itself could become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“Regrets are the ghosts of past decisions. They haunt the present with lessons unlearned and futures unlived.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul

“Don’t bring the past into the present and don’t project the present into the future.”
― Brittany Burgunder