The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
-Guy De Maupassant
Quotations
Future
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
-Marcus Aurelius
It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.
-Steve Maraboli
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"
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
-Jim Morrison
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
-Niels Bohr
The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
-Terri Guillemets
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.
-Voltaire
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-Arthur Wing Pinero
"The Second Mrs. Tanqueray"
