The past is the present and the future too.
The line was adopted from Eugene O'Neill. See XXX.
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.
I believe love is always eternal. Even if eternity is only five minutes.
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.
And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.
I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.
We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.
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.
In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.
We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", "What does?" "This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.
Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.
The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.
I'm going to record forever.
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.
The destination of life is this eternal moment.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Millions and millions of years would still not give me half enough time to describe that tiny instant of all eternity when you put your arms around me and I put my arms around you.
In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.
I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year stands poised. It's only a passing moment, but even as it passes the heart knows it cannot change.
