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
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"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
There are many tomorrows,
There is only one today.
-Joaquin Miller
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
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
Life is only the present. And in the present, neither there is room for memories of
the past nor worries of the future. The root cause of all the miseries of life is the
effort to accommodate the past or future in the present.
-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
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
-Wayne W. Dyer
