You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
Quotations
Future
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
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"
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
-Bob Marley
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"
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
