Future Quotes

The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.

~ C.s. Lewis

A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

~ Jodi Picoult

Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

~ Albert Einstein

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

~ Eoin Colfer

There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.

~ Laura Dave

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

~ Orson Scott Card

If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.

~ Seth Godin

I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.

~ Robert Walser

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

~ Sylvia Plath

I was watching a collection of vintage '80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. It was a tragedy, in my opinion. Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes.

~ Ernest Cline

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

~ Amy Harmon

One mustn't dream of one's future, one must earn it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The time has come to lay that baggage down and leave behind all the struggling and striving. You can be set free as you journey forward into a balanced healthy and rewarding future.

~ Sue Augustine

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

~ Edith Wharton

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

~ John Marsden

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

~ Pierre Trudeau

The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The next step discloses itself only out of a discernment of God acting in the desert of the present moment. The reality of naked trust is the life of the pilgrim who leaves what is nailed down, obvious, and secure, and walks into the unknown without any rational explanation to justify the decision or guarantee the future. Why? Because God has signaled the movement and offered it his presence and his promise.

~ Brennan Manning

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

~ Lesley Pearse

Guys like us got nothing to look ahead to.

~ John Steinbeck

I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.

~ Alan Moore

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

~ Toba Beta

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

At times it may seem as though you and your past are one. Sometimes we fail to differentiate between what has happened to us and who we are today. If you have a hard time getting beyond that damaging mind-set let me encourage you right now. You are not your past Although you are changed and shaped by past experiences who you were yesterday does not control the person you have the potential to become tomorrow.

~ Sue Augustine

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.

~ Peter Mcwilliams

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

~ Dean Acheson

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

~ Gregory Galloway

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

~ Zadie Smith

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

~ Robert M. Pirsig

Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.Words are powerful. Be careful how you use them because once you have pronounced them, you cannot remove the scar they leave behind.

~ Vashti Quiroz-Vega

This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.

~ Michael Cunningham

We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.

~ Robyn Schneider

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.

~ Jackson Burnett

The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while.

~ Willa Cather

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

~ Rodman Philbrick

The future is what matters — because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present — like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.

~ Sylvia Plath

When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.

~ L.m. Montgomery

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

~ Russell Brand