Art Buchwald Quotes

While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

Who wants to live with one foot in hell just for the sake of nostalgia Our time is forever now.

If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

We all look for lost time.

You can't think about the past anymore.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

They say that Hope is happiness But genuine Love must prize the past; And Mem'ry wakes the thoughts that bless: They rose first -- they set the last. And all that mem'ry loves the most Was once our only hope to be: And all that hope adored and lost Hath melted into memory. Alas! It is delusion all-- The future cheats us from afar: Nor can we be what we recall, Nor dare we think on what we are.

In a better world we will find our young years and our old friends.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

Don't think about what you've left behind.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.