The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
-Ambrose Bierce
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
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 good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
-Bob Marley
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-George Carlin
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
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
