Present Future Quotes (page 13)
![Billy Corgan quote: "Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is..."](/pic/295891/600x316/quotation-billy-corgan-thinking-about-the-future-and-thinking-about-the.jpg)
Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.
Albert Camus
![Arundhati Roy quote: "But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future..."](/pic/293570/600x316/quotation-arundhati-roy-but-can-we-should-we-let-apprehensions-about.jpg)
Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.
Leo Tolstoy
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable...
Jeanette Winterson
![Alexander Dumas quote: "In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the..."](/pic/290911/600x316/quotation-alexander-dumas-in-this-world-all-men-women-and-kings-must.jpg)