present Quotes

“He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

topic:present eternity

“Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion

topic:future past present

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvellous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

topic:time pain present

“We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

topic:life time present

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:time memory present

“The letters I had just inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

topic:past present

“Why us for that matter? Why anything ? Because this moment simply is.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

topic:time present

“The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:hope present

“he to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.”

― Oscar Wilde, Intentions

topic:knowledge past present

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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