“The past is pervasive; it seeps into everything;… And yet because the past is irreplaceable and cannot be done again, it was that very past, not the present or the future, that was so delicate, so vulnerable, so dreadfully easy to erase.”

“Everything which is done in the present, affects the future by consequence, and the past by redemption.”

“Nothing ever does happen in the future and nothing ever has happened in the past; the only happening is in the present moment. And yet people everywhere are so wrapped up in the past and future that the present moment tends to be overlooked. Yet this present moment is the only moment of reality; everything else is imagination. Now is the only time we can live. We can't live in the past, although some attempt it, and we can't live in the future. We live now or not at all.”

“As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

“I'm living in the future so the present is my past.
My presence is a present, kiss my ass.”

“There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.”

“Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry.”

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”

“The real is the present, conceived not as a mathematical point between the present and the past, but as the union of present and past in a duration or permanence that is at the same time change. Thus the past as past and the future as future do not exist at all, but are purely ideal; the past as living in the present and the future as germinating in the present are wholly real and indeed are just the present itself. It is because of the presence of these two elements in the present… that the present is a concrete and changing reality and not an empty mathematical point.”

“Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.”