You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
Quotations
Future
The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
-Marcel Pagnol
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
-Bob Marley
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.
-Dodinsky
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
-Eric Hoffer
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"
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
-Winston S. Churchill
