The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
-Henry A. Kissinger
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-Deep Trivedi
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
-Habeed Akande
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
