It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
Quotations
Future
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
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
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
-Paulo Coelho
"The Alchemist"
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
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
-David Gerrold
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"
After all, tomorrow is another day!
-Margaret Mitchell
"Gone With the Wind"
