“They had no past. They had no future. They just were.”

“The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.”

“The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.”

“I had come to regard him as a loner with no real past and a future so vague there was no sense talking about it.”

“No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.”

“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

“Initiation leads to the mount whence vision can be had, a vision of the eternal Now, wherein past, present, and future exist as one.”

“Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. It is where we come from, what makes us who we are.”

“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know,
Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now
And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day
Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.”

“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”