William Saroyan Quotes

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

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

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

It's only forever... Not long at all.

Forever is made up of nows.

Forever - is composed of Nows - 'Tis not a different time... Let Months dissolve in further Months - And Years - exhale in Years.

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

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.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

I love the fact that tomorrow never comes. You can never wake up and say, 'It's tomorrow.' It's always today.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

Forever is a very long time, especially the bit towards the end.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

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

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

Right now counts forever.

this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.