Blaise Pascal Quotes

My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

Every thought is an afterthought.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

It's easy to look into the future and worry about the past.