The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.
-Dodinsky
There are many tomorrows,
There is only one today.
-Joaquin Miller
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
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
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
-Jon Bon Jovi
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present - only longer.
-Dan Quisenberry
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
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"
