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The Present Quotes
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The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play (The Present Quotes)
Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present (The Present Quotes)
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the world deliberately blind, living only inside their heads, in their fantasies, in their memories and worries, oblivious to the present, only aware of the past or future (The Present Quotes)
I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. I’m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable (The Present Quotes)
I’m a century old, an impossible age, and my brain has no anchor in the present. Instead it drifts, nearly always to the same shore. Today, as most days, it is 1962. The year I discovered love (The Present Quotes)
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the present, and the future, in the noggin eternally, like brushes, combs and ribbons in a handbag (The Present Quotes)
The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future (The Present Quotes)
The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender (The Present Quotes)
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future (The Present Quotes)
Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia (The Present Quotes)
The shadow past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst (The Present Quotes)
When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended (The Present Quotes)
It often feels like I’m not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future (The Present Quotes)
Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember (The Present Quotes)
A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition and the rules of its game. A text remains, moreover, forever imperceptible. Its laws and rules are not, however, harbored in the inaccessibility of a secret; it is simply that they can never be booked, in the present, into anything that could rigorously be called a perception (The Present Quotes)
No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love (The Present Quotes)
... yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present (The Present Quotes)
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives (The Present Quotes)
The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new (The Present Quotes)
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I’m willing to take the risk (The Present Quotes)
There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we’re stuck in our thoughts. We’re out of touch with the open space that is always right here (The Present Quotes)
It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps (The Present Quotes)
There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one’s vision of the past (The Present Quotes)
I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming (The Present Quotes)
I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed.about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past (The Present Quotes)
The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present (The Present Quotes)
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present (The Present Quotes)
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present (The Present Quotes)
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn’t done any new thinking in the past ten years (The Present Quotes)
If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present (The Present Quotes)