present Quotes

“what necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

topic:life future present

“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

topic:knowledge understanding past present

“I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

topic:future past living present

“And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

topic:suffering present

“Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we...”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

topic:past present history

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

topic:death past present

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