Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don’t even know how long before is.

I used to think there was no time like the present. I used to think there was no time <i>but</i> the present. Now I know better — or different, anyway. In the end, the past will always be there. The past is all there is: the present never sticks around for long enough, and the future is anybody’s guess. In time, you always have to hand it to the past. It always gets you in the end.

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.

The only time that exists in life is now.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

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.

Only the present moment contains life.

Time isn't the main thing. It's the only thing.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

You know the past only in the present and as part of the present.

Perhaps nothing was worth worrying about in a city where everything was constantly shifting and dissolving, and the only thing they could ever rely on was this moment in time, which was already half gone.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.