John Ashbery Quotes

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

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

Things work in cycles.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may be for us and it may not.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

In Korean, the word 'future' is made up of two parts. The first part means 'not,' and the second means 'to come.' In that sense, 'future' means something that will not come. This is to say the future is now, and our now is us living our future.

You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are.

Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

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

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

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

Life is the past, the present and the perhaps.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Still ending, and beginning still.

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

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.