"It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past."

Time, Present, Future, Past, Living

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Measurement, Life

"Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future."

John Green, American Author

Time, Life, Future, Present

"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Desire, Life, Eternity

"Life is defined by time and seasons."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Seasons, Define, Life

"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Time, Value, Minute, Perspective

"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Past, Present, Future

"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Time, Habit, Day

"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Time, Future, Truth, Reality, Present

"I think its really matured a lot. I like the fact that there is now more to do there than gamble, since I don't do a lot of that. The people are great. I seldom have time for vacations and when I do I prefer the beach instead of the desert."

Doug Davidson, American Actor

Time, People, Beach, Fact

Explore more quotes by Frank Herbert

"Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes."

Society

"I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day."

Life

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

Courage

"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."

Mind

"As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance."

Politics

"The man without emotions is the one to fear."

Emotion

"The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred."

Philosophy

"Face your fears or they will climb over your back."

Courage

"The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead."

Respect

"We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."

Learning