The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
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
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
After all, tomorrow is another day!
-Margaret Mitchell
"Gone With the Wind"
In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.
-Andy Warhol
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-C. S. Lewis
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
The future is always beginning now.
-Mark Strand
"Reasons for Moving"
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
