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
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"
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.
-Charles F. Kettering
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
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
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
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
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-Jon Bon Jovi
