The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
The entire past of a person is like a dustbin. Whenever one puts his hand in and
tries to take anything out, no matter what it is, it will surely stink. Similarly, all his
aspirations for future resemble the desire to fly like a bird, whenever he will try,
he is bound to fall hard and hit the ground.
-Deep Trivedi
People were always getting ready for tomorrow.
I didn’t believe in that.
Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them.
It didn’t even know they were there.
-Cormac McCarthy
"The Road"
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
-Charles F. Kettering
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
-Anthony "Tony" Robbins
