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"
Quotations
Future
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
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
And in today already walks tomorrow.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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 past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-Terri Guillemets
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
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
