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"
Quotations
Future
Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.
-Meredith Wilson
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Gautama Buddha
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia
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
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
-C. S. Lewis
Tomorrow I may see (or be persuaded of) errors in my present thinking, but today I have to do the best I can.
-Francis Crick
"Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul"
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
