Future Quotes

And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.

~ Ray Bradbury

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

~ Haruki Murakami

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

~ Virginia Woolf

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

~ Haruki Murakami

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars. And really, that was enough.

~ Melissa Landers

All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll regret it later.

~ Jessica Therrien

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

~ Tad Williams

Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.

~ Robert J. Sawyer

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.

~ Bruce Sterling

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

~ Brad Meltzer

There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.

~ Emlyn Chand

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability

~ Kevin Kelly

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day.

~ Charles Bukowski

What hasty preperations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we’re sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we’ll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.

~ Chang-Rae Lee

One of the things that therapists do if you are suicidal, like a trick, is ask you about the future. They want to know what your plans are. Do you want to be the president? Do you want to be a rock star? They want to know if you want to live later even if you want to die now.

~ Albert Borris

No, really,' I said. 'I think she's great. And I honestly like her about twenty more times now than I did when we were dating. But love needs to have a future. And Sofia and I don't have a future. We've just had a good time sharing the present, that's all.

~ David Levithan

You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit.

~ Joel Salatin

Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.

~ Simon Pegg

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.

~ Amanda Howells

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

~ Wilbur Smith

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

~ Graham Swift

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

~ Lisa Mangum

I will never forget your fire. I can't wait to see what you do.

~ Kiera Cass

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

~ Boyd K. Packer

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

I figured that when there's no way of knowing what the future holds it's just as easy to believe it'll be good as to believe it'll be bad.

~ Jean Ferris

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.

~ Audrey Tautou

The future is in the skies.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

~ George Orwell

You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.

~ Lish Mcbride

Perhaps a wiser eye than hers would be able to read tomorrow in tonight's stars, but where was the fun in that? It was better not to know. Better to be alive in the Here and the Now--in this bright, laughing moment--and let the Hours to come take care of themselves.

~ Clive Barker

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

~ Robin Hobb

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

~ Alan Lightman

Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.

~ Jay Asher

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer, it may even help produce the right future.

~ Adolfo Bioy Casares

Be careful not to look so far ahead, that you miss what’s in front of you

~ Jeremy Aldana

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

~ Nelly Kaplan

And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future.

~ Renee Carlino

The world is going to become bloody stupid and from now on will be a very boring place. We’re lucky to be living now.

~ Gustave Flaubert

You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.

~ Toba Beta