Future Quotes

Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.

~ David Bowie

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

~ Joris-Karl Huysmans

Just because you don't know what you want yet, it doesn't mean that there's nothing to want.

~ Emily Henry

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

~ Anthony Liccione

Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

~ Chris Bohjalian

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

People from the past, have a tendency to walk back into the present, and run over the future.

~ Anthony Liccione

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.

~ Amanda Howells

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

~ André Breton

You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

~ C.s. Lewis

As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy

~ Richard Kadrey

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

~ Mattie J.t. Stepanek

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

~ André Breton

I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be

~ Arthur Golden

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

~ Kim Edwards

The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.

~ John Green

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach.

~ Isaac Asimov

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

~ George Orwell

I know too well howgood-bye can steal more than just the future.

~ Talia Vance

Jesus, I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it.

~ John Green

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I wasn't scared of losing my past. i was scared of losing my future.

~ Meg Jay

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

~ Voltaire

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

~ Kirsty Eagar

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as the sport of the future since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.

~ Chuck Klosterman

C'mon, let's get out of here. I have a future to attend to.

~ Melissa Good

Sometimes, Anu, we have to take actions that make us sad because it's the right thing to do for the future.

~ Michelle Moran

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

~ Peter Benchley

‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.

~ Mary Lydon Simonsen

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.

~ Toba Beta

It's not technology that limits us. We're the limitation. Our technology is an expression of our intelligence and creativity, so the limitations of our technology are a reflection of our own limitations. We can't fundamentally advance technology until we fundamentally advance ourselves.

~ Christian Cantrell

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.

~ Lorrie Moore

He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin.

~ Dan Chaon

No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

~ William Beckford