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.
The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.
Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were only waiting for us to find our way to them at last, just as when we have accepted an invitation we duly arrive in a certain house at a given time.
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
I believe one thing: that today is yesterday and tomorrow is today and you can't stop.
Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.
The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.