Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

People are still living in the moment, and they feel the passion of now.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

Past and future are two aspects of the same coin. The name of the coin is mind.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

The present moment is all you ever have.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?