The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
-Stephen E. Ambrose
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"
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 belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
Do not worry about tomorrow, it will have enough worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day brings.
-Jesus Christ
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-Jon Bon Jovi
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
