Bill Murray Quotes

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

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

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

I believe in living in the present and making each day count. I don't pay much attention to the past or the future.

Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Today is the only guarantee you get.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

The present is burdened too much with the past. We have not time, in our earthly existence, to appreciate what is warm with life, and immediately around us.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.