Gene Wolfe Quotes

Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse.

Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.