The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
One today is worth two tomorrows.
-Benjamin Franklin
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip one hour more of sleep and live.
-Sylvia Plath
You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
-Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk
"Survivor"
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
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
We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
-Henry A. Kissinger
