Ross McCormack Quotes

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

I hope my journals relating to World War II will help clarify issues of the past and thereby contribute to understanding the issues and conditions of the present and future.

The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.

Photography can only represent the present. Once photographed, the subject becomes part of the past.

I'm living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present.

Ere we can forecast the future we must understand the present and bring a just sense of proportion to our review of the history of the past.

We can neither ignore the history of the past nor create the future.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.