The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
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
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
Invest in the future because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.
-Habeed Akande
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.
-Dodinsky
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
