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I always found it so ironic, how the people from the past would do anything to see what happened everywhere else in the world that they lost so much of their own life watching this little screen.
— Silje Jensen
Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.
— Alan McCluskey, The Reaches
Not scared.But excited in thatjiggering-on-too-much-hot-saucekind of waythat it's time tostep outof my old framework,raw and amorphous,to become something I've never thought of before.
— Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
Because sometimes people expect more, they expect their desires to be met, they fancy a future built on the pillars of their faith. But love is weak and impermanent and thus when the time comes, the pillars begin to crumble.Then again that doesn’t mean they can’t be built again. They can, they surely can, when the times are favorable and the state of affairs, sound.
— Chirag Tulsiani
All that matters is this moment and what you make of it, because the past is history and the future is just full of wishes that you can’t foresee.
— Austin V. Songer
Live the future when it comes, not now, only when it comes! Now, only live the now!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.
— Alen Sargsyan
When I look in the mirror, I see someone who will accomplish amazing things
— Veronica Lavallee
You can't be friends with yesterday and tomorrow at the same time.
— Jovan
You can't know what it is like for us now--you will always be one step behind.Be thankful for that.You can't know what it was like for us then--you will always be one step ahead.Be thankful for that, too.
— David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing
But the trouble is, I do want to be surprised. I want to choose. I broke the heart of my fate so that I could choose. I never chose; I only saw a little girl who looked like me standing on a gear at the end of the world and laughing, and that's not choosing, not really. Wouldn't you rather I chose you? Wouldn't you rather I picked our future out of all the others anyone could have?
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
— Martin Heidegger, Being and Time
There's a certain language, a dying language, and I can't remember who speaks it or where in the world they are, but in that language the future is referred to as being behind us. It must be behind us, since we can see the past. We walk backwards, blind, into the future, only knowing where we've already been.
— Andra Brynn, Where I End and You Begin
God doesn’t put that much prep into something that is insignificant.
— Shannon L. Alder
You can only predict things after they have happened.
— Eugène Ionesco
A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.
— Christopher Wren
Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
— Isaac Asimov
In a tired time, with the light outside drifting away for another day and the lights inside flickering as they come to life, I cup my hands together and prepare to give thanks ... to the life of a day given to me. A day shared with past and present, living and dying, of body and not, and a realization that in everything that is, there is something that was.
— R.J. Heller, Holding Grace
You are walking along a road peacefully. You trip. You fall into blackness. That's the past - or perhaps the future. And you know that there is no past, no future, there is only this blackness, changing faintly, slowly, but always the same.
— Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
— Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly and with intense interest I am glad to comply with his request to give him my impression.The work is a broadly conceived attempt to portray man's fear-induced animistic and mythic ideas with all their far-flung transformations and interrelations. It relates the impact of these phantasmagorias on human destiny and the causal relationships by which they have become crystallized into organized religion.This is a biologist speaking, whose scientific training has disciplined him in a grim objectivity rarely found in the pure historian. This objectivity has not, however, hindered him from emphasizing the boundless suffering which, in its end results, this mythic thought has brought upon man.Professor Smith envisages as a redeeming force, training in objective observation of all that is available for immediate perception and in the interpretation of facts without preconceived ideas. In his view, only if every individual strives for truth can humanity attain a happier future; the atavisms in each of us that stand in the way of a friendlier destiny can only thus be rendered ineffective.His historical picture closes with the end of the nineteenth century, and with good reason. By that time it seemed that the influence of these mythic, authoritatively anchored forces which can be denoted as religious, had been reduced to a tolerable level in spite of all the persisting inertia and hypocrisy.Even then, a new branch of mythic thought had already grown strong, one not religious in nature but no less perilous to mankind -- exaggerated nationalism. Half a century has shown that this new adversary is so strong that it places in question man's very survival. It is too early for the present-day historian to write about this problem, but it is to be hoped that one will survive who can undertake the task at a later date.
— Albert Einstein, Man and His Gods
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
— J. Craig Venter
Your fear comes not from what you're afraid will happen. Your fear comes from thinking what may happen. You cannot predict your future. You can however, create your future. What happened yesterday is over. What happens today is up to you….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.... To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.
— Gary Shteyngart
Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawnIndicative that suns go down
— The notice to the startled grassThat darkness is about to pass.
Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.
— Robert H. Goddard
We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.
— Anshuma Sharma
Be still and calm, don't fear your past but use it for our future..!
— Nitesh Nishad
Today's science is tomorrow's technology.
— Edward Teller, The Legacy Of Hiroshima
As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issues confronting mankind today.
— Hermann Joseph Muller
I am only a child yet I know if all money spent on war was spent on finding environmental answers, ending poverty, and binding treaties, what a wonderful place this Earth would be.
— A. Zampolli
Let go yesterday and hold out for tomorrow, the future is in the palm of your hand.
— L.L. Caulton
Look at towards the future! If you see something, it is your imagination only! Because the future is not there yet, it has not born yet!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made.
— John Schaar
Aren’t you at all curious about your past?” Rhys asked.“No, my present is who I am. Your identity is whoever you choose to be, not who your parents were.”“But as a scientist you know that prior events influence it, and the future.”“In physics, yes. In people, no.
— Jeffrey Perren, Death Is Overrated
I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you—a normal life."Her eyes glistened. "I don’t expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin
Dear me, one day I'll make you proud.
— Charlotte Eriksson
I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you."“I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the lower stairs. “Way worse.”“Oh, not the attack.” Bex raised her finger in contradiction. “What happened before the attack. I think you saw the future. Which is kind of freaky when - two months ago - you didn’t think you were going to have one.
— Ally Carter, United We Spy
... but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.
— Charlotte Eriksson
So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –
— Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice
He can't give you a future.""I know. Because I make my own future.
— Emma Raveling
Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?
— Richard Siken, Crush
Page 99: "...unless something changes, the future that you can expect is more of the past. Sorry or becoming committed does not make Jim Carrey a great golfer, or made Jack nicklaus funny. Recommitment does not make a person who is unsuited for a particular position suited for it all of a sudden. Promises by someone who has a history of letting you down in a relationship mean nothing certain in terms of the future.
— Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward
I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed so far away, so old, so unreal. And here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless beautiful woman. I never dreamed it would be like this.
— Tracey Emin, Strangeland
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. We are destined to be a barrier against the returns of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a Colossus shall we be when the Southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it secure as a ralliance for the reason & freedom of the globe! I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. So good night. I will dream on, always fancying that Mrs Adams and yourself are by my side marking the progress and the obliquities of ages and countries.
— Thomas Jefferson, Adams-Jefferson Letters
When trees fall on trees, the topmost tree must first be removed before others. Don't be too concerned about the problems of the past. What matters most is the challenge at hand now!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Without language, they have no lies. Thus they have no future.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, Changing Planes
My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
— Jaeda DeWalt
How merciful a thing is man's ignorance of his immediate future! What a ghastly, paralysing thing it would have been if all those present could have known what was about to happen within a matter of seconds! For nothing short of pre-knowledge could have stopped the occurrence, so suddenly it sprang upon them.
— Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast
When you stop looking over your shoulder, you shall see that the future is way nicer than the past.
— Sylvia L'Namira
The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.
— Juliet Marillier, Raven Flight
It is so awkward that how our ancestors wasted their whole life and never thought about education or making difference for the future generations. My Grandfather lived more than a 100+ years, married 3 women and as he was illiterate he just wasted 115 fucking years. I wish I could live a hundred years like him to make difference, so the next generation does not use the same insulting words I am using today.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Someone telling you about the future did not prepare you for it. Nothing prepared you for it.
— Tracy Guzeman, The Gravity of Birds
We live in an age that cannibalises its past because it has lost faith in its future.
— Paul McAuley, Evening's Empires
Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller.
— Abigail Landsbrook
The whole time I pretend I have mental telepathy. And with my mind only, I’ll say — or think? — to the target, 'Don’t do it. Don’t go to that job you hate. Do something you love today. Ride a rollercoaster. Swim in the ocean naked. Go to the airport and get on the next flight to anywhere just for the fun of it. Maybe stop a spinning globe with your finger and then plan a trip to that very spot; even if it’s in the middle of the ocean you can go by boat. Eat some type of ethnic food you’ve never evenheard of. Stop a stranger and ask her to explain her greatest fears and her secret hopes and aspirations in detail and then tell her you care because she is a human being. Sit down on the sidewalk and make pictures with colorful chalk. Close your eyes and try to see the world with your nose—allow smellsto be your vision. Catch up on your sleep. Call an old friend you haven’t seen in years. Roll up your pant legs and walk into the sea. See a foreign film. Feed squirrels. Do anything! Something! Because you start a revolution one decision at a time, with each breath you take. Just don’t go back to thatmiserable place you go every day. Show me it’s possible to be an adult and also be happy. Please. This is a free country. You don’t have to keep doing this if you don’t want to. You can do anything you want. Be anyone you want. That’s what they tell us at school, but if you keep getting on that train and going to the place you hate I’m going to start thinking the people at school are liars like the Nazis who told the Jews they were just being relocated to work factories. Don’t do that to us. Tell us the truth. If adulthood is working some death-camp job you hate for the rest of your life, divorcing your secretly criminal husband, being disappointed in your son, being stressed and miserable, and dating a poser and pretending he’s a hero when he’s really a lousy person and anyone can tell that just by shaking his slimy hand — if it doesn’t get any better, I need to know right now. Just tell me. Spare me from some awful fucking fate. Please.
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
I want you to have the best of everything I can give you. And I'm not talking money here, Tru. I'm talking memories. Our life together.
— Samantha Towle, Wethering the Storm
Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.
— Peter Benchley, Jaws
The present is the closest that you will ever get to the future.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Opportunities are born by learning!
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer.
— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live.
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about,but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy it or repaint it. We want to be the masters of the future only for the power to change the past. We fight for access to the labs where we can retouch photos and rewrite biographies and history.
— Milan Kundera
the oncoming night was filled with the mystery of unknown places and of distance, of things that happened long ago and happenings yet to com
— Elyne Mitchell, Son of the Whirlwind
One may escape from the prisons of experience, ideology or philosophy, but it is impossible to escape from the reality of one's innermost self. Understanding this, I had freed myself from nostalgia, and having done so, what remained was to free myself from the prospect of the future.("The Tower")
— Mark Samuels, Best New Horror 23
Yesterday was the last day on the calender of the past. Tomorrow will be the first day on the calender of the future. Today is both the first and the last day of the present. Use it well.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Look at yourself on the day that you graduated from college, then look at yourself today. I did that recently and it was like, 'Yikes! What the hell happened?
— David Sedaris
The starting point toward developing an improved future is building the power to picture it.
— Celso Cukierkorn, Secrets of Jewish Wealth Revealed!
Contrary to popular belief: Knowing where you are from will not really tell you where you are going. It will merely tell you why you are where you are.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Look at this site - it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake. You do not know what was here 40-50 years back. Probably, a ditch full of stagnant water and mud breeding mosquitoes. Now here we have beautiful lake surrounded by lush green bushes and beautiful flowers. The place is beautiful today, so we come and enjoy its company, its presence. We do not think about its past or we do not to know what will happen here years later. We enjoy the beauty of its present.
— Ravindra Shukla, A Maverick Heart: Between Love and Life
Soothsayers are like that. They see many futures but never their own.
— Jasper Fforde, The Last Dragonslayer
I thought I saw my entire future once, every moment of it, until the day of my death. I spent it in her arms. Then after twenty years, she left.
— Jessica Fortunato
Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one’s Tuesday.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
He was a prisoner to the calendar, he realised, as we all were. He thought in little boxes that were to be ticked off and filled with things to do. Almost every day he thought back to what he had been doing ten years ago, twenty years ago, further. He lived in the past, by his diary. He was a history man, his head full of dead leaves. It was a form of reassurance, he knew. There were too many roads into the future and he didn't like not having a map for it.("Wait")
— Conrad Williams, Best New Horror 23
I am counting on nothing but the facts about me. So come on, Future. I've my back against the past. Anyway, as you see, it is too late to argue. I've crossed the Rubicon, and can return only when I have built a new bridge.
— Mildred Aldrich, A Hilltop on the Marne
Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough ti change. If you want things to go your way, being smart and being strong are helpful, but you still have to work your ass off.
— J.A. Konrath, Cherry Bomb
When we walk with knowledge in our present and wisdom from our past we are able to discern how to prepare for tomorrow". HS/el
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Hope for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
I'm not afraid of death really, just what comes after.
— Jose Guerra Sison
We are all time travelers, we just don't know it yet.The only problem is that we only have a one way ticket, destination: FUTURE.
— Alina Radoi
Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Once your past no longer has the power to define you, your future is, quite literally, yours for the taking. Every single beautiful thing you could possibly want or imagine will be yours.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
And sometimes I try to stop speculating the future out of existence, and other times I just lean back and run with it because maybe it's for the best.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley, Lost at Sea
The bold code of the transhumanist will rise. That's an inevitable, undeniable fact. It's embedded in the undemocratic nature of technology and our own teleological evolutionary advancment. It is the future. We are the future like it or not. And it needs to molded, guided, and handled correctly by the strength and wisdom of transhumanist scientists with their nations and resources standing behind them, facilitating them. It needs to be supported in a way that we can make a successful transition into it, and not sacrifice ourselves—either by its overwhelming power or by a fear of harnessing that power. You need to put your resources into the technology. Into our education system. Into our universities, industries, and ideas. Into the strongest of our society. Into the brightest of our society. Into the best of our society So that we can attain the future.
— Zoltan Istvan, The Transhumanist Wager
I want something that is nothing like the past.
— Brooke Bida
Because if they grow up holding on to such terrible feelings, it could lead to another war come time in the future when the fate of the country is in their hands.
— Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
MRS PEARCE. Mr Higgins: youre tempting the girl. It’s not right. She should think of the future.HIGGINS. At her age! Nonsense! Time enough to think of the future when you havnt any future to think of.
— George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.
— E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
What others see in you now is just a MILD chapter of you
—  the WILD version of your brand is yet to be visible. Just dare and will show up!
We can create a different future - one simple, beautifully mundane, daily decision at a time.
— Patti Digh, Four-Word Self-Help: Simple Wisdom for Complex Lives
The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.
— Israelmore Ayivor
Everything we think we know, everything we think we see, everything we believe we feel, taste, smell, or hear, everything we “remember” (our pasts), everything we want to happen (our futures), everything that has ever existed or will ever exist, only exists right now. All of these things are nothing more than electric signals being passed through our brains and bodies, right now. It is all energy flowing through us right now. “The past” exists only in our minds. We are the ones who bring it into reality. We are the ones who bring it into the present. We are the ones who make it “real”.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
I could be anything but for the faults that I've acquired on my way.
— Matchbox 20
on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.
— E.M. Forster, The Machine Stops
Think Positively.Network well.Eat healthy.Work Smart.Stay Strong.Build faith.Worry less.Read more.Be happy.Volunteer freely.Relax often.Love always.Live eternallyand you will see doors open to your favor.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
No need to be worry what will happened in the future, just live it.
— Ainun Annisa
Your past is a place for reference, not residence.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
TODAY is the PAST of your FUTURE. So, make TODAY count for the sake of your HISTORY. Use your words, time & choices wisely
— Fela Durotoye
Don't recide in the past. Instead, refer to it, else you will remain in the remand of high demand but with low command
— Israelmore Ayivor
I can't change the past, but that doesn't mean I can't learn from it. I can't the future, but that doesn't mean I can't be ready for it.
— Kenneth de Guzman
Future is a car with brake failure
—  it is moving towards us at a very high speed.
The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We change with time by how we view the future and reflect the past
— Ronnie Cornelisz
Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Think! There's nothing certain in our future! All we can hope for is a vague continuation. But in spite of that, you're going to keep on living. You can't give up on life just because it's vague. It's a question of possibilities...
— Kōji Suzuki, Ring
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions
There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
The clock ticks; the taunting rhythm serving as a reminder that forward is the only way we can go. The mechanical heartbeat of the darkness, a cold ellipsis, punctuating years gone by. Arising unchained.No glorious hymn, just the steady beat of the illusion of time. We heal or we carry forward the weight of our wounds... To believe otherwise is the mendacity of desperation. Arising honestly. The miles behind are littered with the weight of nostalgia, but too many miles lay ahead us to carry the weight. In the end, even echoes fade away. Pen in hand...Arising to write the next chapter.(MU Articles 2013, Dedication to Joey)
— Shannon L. Alder
She knew what he had in mind.He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday.There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.
— Jana Oliver, Foretold
UPYou wake up filled with dread.There seems no reason for it.Morning light sifts through the window,there is birdsong,you can't get out of bed.It's something about the crumpled sheetshanging over the edge like junglefoliage, the terry slippers gapingtheir dark pink mouths for your feet,the unseen breakfast--some of itin the refrigerator you do not dareto open--you will not dare to eat.What prevents you? The future. The future tense,immense as outer space.You could get lost there.No. Nothing so simple. The past, its densityand drowned events pressing you down,like sea water, like gelatinfilling your lungs instead of air.Forget all that and let's get up.Try moving your arm.Try moving your head.Pretend the house is on fireand you must run or burn.No, that one's useless.It's never worked before.Where is it coming form, this echo,this huge No that surrounds you,silent as the folds of the yellowcurtains, mute as the cheerfulMexican bowl with its cargoof mummified flowers?(You chose the colours of the sun,not the dried neutrals of shadow.God knows you've tried.)Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?
— Margaret Atwood
Writers are never fully present because they’re always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.
— Jessica Soffer
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
— Bob Iger
There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try, it will always spring back toward a determined present. Myself, I do not worry about such trivialities. I simply sell ties to anyone who wants to buy one...
— Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
The past stands in the path of the future, knowing it will be crushed.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson, The Summer Prince
I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
— Gloria Whelan, All My Noble Dreams and Then What Happens
We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.
— Fuyumi Soryo, Mars, Volume 15
The future depends on what we do in the present.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Time…Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.We do not hold on to the now, andWe do not treasure the future…We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.Until it comes no more.
— Michelle Horst, Visions and Shadows
Look for patterns, and then ask why those patterns exist.
— Debra Kaye, Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovations
My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
— H.G. Wells
We laughed the way that only people who carry each other back from Hell can laugh when they finally get a hunger for the future once again.
— Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad
Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future!
— Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
...if it was scandalous for girls in the 1960s to wear pants to school, what else will we look back on & shake our heads at? What else can't we see in the future? And at that, what else can we dream up?
— Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence
He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
...in my wildest, most indulgent dreams, we only hear about sexual assault & abuse in history books.
— Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence
There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.
— Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook
The future isn't written in the stars. There are no guarantees. So claim your adulthood. Be intentional. Get to work. Pick your family. Do the math. Make your own certainty. Don't be defined by what you didn't know or didn't do.You are deciding your life right now.
— Meg Ray
But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.
— Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum
[I]f you don't feel or look rich, you don't necessarily feel the same sense of obligation that a traditional rich person does or should: Noblesse oblige is, after all, dependent on a classical idea of who is and is not the nobility. As that starts to fall away, obligation--to culture, to the future, to each other--begins to disappear too.
— Ellen Cushing
With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.
— Janet Edwards
My native tense is future conditional, a low simmer of unspecified worry being the usual condition.
— Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me
— Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple
Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.
— Miranda Hart, Is It Just Me?
Then there are the simple things. The way she fits against my side when we’re sitting together. How she can silence my addled thoughts with one look. The sound of my name from her lips. The way she can make a moment, any moment, a thousands times better when she is there. How the simplest pleasures in life become exciting with the promise of sharing the experience with her.
— Erik Tomblin
My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Sometimes you have to know what you're willing to sacrifice to be the person you are meant to be.
— Erik Tomblin
But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.
— Cameron Dokey, Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Don’t live in the past – you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now – it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.
— Steve Goodier
Even not choosing is a choice.
— Denise Grover Swank, Chosen
Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince.
— Chuck Black, Kingdom's Call
Quote from “FUTURE GONE”:“…I set the house on fire. It’s dark outside. The fire tears down the darkness. I turn my back to the place and leave, not knowing where. And suddenly I understand…All dreams are dead now”.
— Alexandar Tomov
Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.
— Dennis E. Adonis
We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!
— Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society
You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past.
— Munia Khan
Living is like driving," my grandmother used to say. "You have to pick a lane." Have I chosen the right lane? It feels like this place, this moment in time, lies exactly halfway between my past and my future.
— Kathleen Flinn, The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
There will come a time,' I said, 'when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this' - I gestured encompassingly - 'will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn't be a part of. She didn't know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give it to us.
— Austin Grossman, You
Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.
— Gordon R. Dickson, Necromancer
In another 2,400 years, even Socrates, the most well-known genius of the century, might be forgotten. The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Push today for what you want tomorrow!
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
— Humberto Contreras, The Preponderant Factor
Live in the present, but live for the future.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.
— Ogwo David Emenike
A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.
— Samantha Young, Slumber
Sometimes in order to appreciate your future, you must remember the past.
— Dennis E. Adonis
To know one's future is the single most destructive way of ending your life before you've lived it." - Altheon (Betrayal- Fey Court Trilogy)
— Cyndi Goodgame, Betrayal
Too often our visions of the futureare dull and impotentlike a hammer beating the water.
— Harley King, Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999
It's not just about what I can SEE for our future, or humanity; it's about what I can DO for our future and humanity.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s it. Where is the moment?
— David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Living in the past kills your future.
— Habeeb Akande
Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn't mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll give you the space you need. Unless, of course, they’re the type of nightmares that have an appetite, then you’re fucked.
— Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
If I dream by myself, it's merely a dream. But if we all dream together, that's the start of a new future.
— Lee Soo Man
Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
— William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
It is the business of the future to be dangerous
—  and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.
— Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - ‘Wait and hope.’ – Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
Shut up!" I say, holding my hands to my ears. "Shut up!"But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I don't want to think about who I am or what's wrong with me or why I'm out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope who's so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future doesn't exist.
— Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe
Never look at what you want to change. Always look at what has changed.
— Jane Kang
Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that all that has transpired has brought you to this moment, and in this very moment, riches that far outweigh those of the world already lie within you.
— Kristi Bowman
Some of us enjoy with today, some with future and some other with past.
— Shayne Azad
Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking that drowning only involves what. believe it or not, you have missed quite a number of drowned and drowning people. Some of us are thought to save some one drowning in water, most of us can spot that too, but none of us has been thought to see the other kinds of drowners, nor how to save them.
— chioma Nkachukwu
The only way for you to know that you can really make a change is by knowing the future.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that everything he touched made his fingers too sticky to be of the slightest use.
— Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of some of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have that right.
— C.P. Snow, Science and Government
Since the future is unknown, in every step forward we walk to the unknown!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
You can't sail towards your future if you're still anchored in the past.
— Julie-Anne
Invest in your knowledge and future! Especially if you got kids, you don't want them going through life struggling trying to find jobs to survive and dealing with managers that don't know how to act because of their position, you don't want them to go through what you went through.... If you live day by day then you wont have something to look forward to." -Robert RiveraNew King James VersionProverbs 13:22- A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.
— Robert Rivera
We race toward the future at the velocity of the present.
— D.A. Blankinship, The Scoloderus Conspiracy
We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.
— Anthony Liccione
That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
— Vincent van Gogh
Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
But the past is long, and the future is short.
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
There is little faith involved in setting out on a journey where the destination is certain and every step in between has been mapped in detail. Bravery, trust, is about leaving camp in the dark, when we do not know the route ahead and cannot be certain we will ever return.
— Bear Grylls, A Survival Guide for Life
You have to choose your future regrets.
— Christopher Hitchens
The future begins today.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.
— Melody Carstairs
I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.
— Horace, The Odes of Horace
We are all time voyagers leaving history in our wake, pioneering into the future.
— Erwin Raphael McManus, Chasing Daylight: Seize the Power of Every Moment
…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection; the private, and we must accept this, and it’s a hard thing to accept, the private is gone. All must be touched. All touch corrupts. All must be corrupted. And if you’re thinking how awful these sentiments are, you are perfectly correct, these are awful times, but you must remember as well that this has always been the chiefest characteristic of the Present, to everyone living through it; always, throughout history, and so far as I can see for all the days and years to come until the sun and the stars fall down and the clocks have all ground themselves to expiry and the future has long long shaded away into Time Immemorial: the Present is always an awful place to be.
— Tony Kushner, Homebody/Kabul