Don DeLillo Quotes

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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

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

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

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.

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

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

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

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.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Whenever we're having a great time, we're already anticipating the day when we will remember this great time. Many of us live in that unreal area between the past, the present, and the future.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

The assumption behind any theology that I've ever been familiar with is that there is a profound beauty in being, simply in itself. Poetry, at least traditionally, has been an educing of the beauty of language, the beauty of experience, the beauty of the working of the mind, and so on. The pastor does, indeed, appreciate it.

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide.

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.