“Harry Dresden: Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, the ghosts of indictment past, present and future. They will teach you the true meaning of "you are still a scumbag criminal."”

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.”

Karen Blixen (1885–1962) Danish writer

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

“If you continue to visualize things in the past, you are unlikely to make much progress in the present and the future.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

“I wish to acquaint you with some of the occurrences of the present past and future.”

Ned Kelly (1855–1880) Australian bushranger

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie

“Whereas before you dwelt in time and paid brief visits to the Now, have your dwelling place in the Now and pay brief visits to past and future.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

“But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Lunar Park