Future Quotes

Your future self is watching you right now through your memories.

~ Aubrey De Grey

In the wink of an eye, all quaint days of the past, the present, and future will meld together into the bottomless unknown of perpetuity. Only trace evidence of our invertebrate existence will anoint future generations. In the crinkle of time, our houses will crumble apart. Companies that we worked for will go out of business or merge with other nameless conglomerates. What will survive us are our children and our words.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

It's always going to get better someday. Sometime in the future, things won't be so crazy.

~ Rachel Hawkins

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

~ Liz Kessler

If future frightens you, Let me tell you, neither it is sure - nor it is relevant. But for sure, you are wasting your present which is certain! Live Life Day @ Time

~ Praveen Chenna

I no longer looked to the future or lost hope in it. The past and the future are, from the view of the present, nothing more than a distant paradise. As one who can never achieve divinity, all I could do is ponder that with all of my might.

~ Kinoko Nasu

The negative feelings of anger, bitterness, guilt, regret, resentment, and sadness represent a failure of a person to accept that the past is an event that holds no power over the present. The thought that the future will bring salvation is an illusion. We must exist in the present.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We cannot turn back the clock and relive cherished pastimes. We move beyond our origins. A person must make their way in an evolving social, political, and economic world order. We must not be too quick writing off the influence of our prior experiences, because the long tentacles the past remain vibrant strands within us. While the past does not cast our future in stone, its durable mold shapes our present. The ingrained strumming of our personal histories, sentimental or otherwise, also portents what might come along in our future.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact stride away across the Raman plain, totally indifferent to his presence.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

If you knew what I would become in the future, would you have treated me the same way today?.

~ Gugu Mona

A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished.

~ Charlotte Brontë

The prison bars deny you the now. You are forced to always think about the past or the future.

~ E. Leo Foster

Today is older than tomorrow,that is the power of the present

~ Abc

To be in the present time, keep yourself busy always or else you will find yourself either in the past or in the future!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this gesture; would every creature, everywhere in the universe, interpret this as See--no weapons? But no one could think of anything better.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing, is what it appears to be, when it's only with your eyes you see.

~ N'zuri Za Austin

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man’s ability to invent which has made human society what it is. The mental processes of inventions are still mysterious. They are rational but not logical, that is to say, not deductive.

~ Dennis Gabor

Plans can break down. You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers.

~ Terry Pratchett

The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.

~ Frank Herbert

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, who reluctantly subsided, like a volcano biding its time.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

It is sometimes but the mere hope for enjoyment that allows one to enjoy something, even when he is not really enjoying it at the moment.

~ Criss Jami

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

~ Nell Zink

If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

~ Milan Kundera

We need to make progress. Otherwise we're waiting for news in a world where there is no longer any news.

~ Ray Bradbury

Time travel occurs in humans collective subconscious.

~ Toba Beta

Everyone is wrong about the future.

~ Milan Kundera

And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress.

~ Terry Pratchett

Your words determine who you are and who you want to be.

~ Salma Issah

She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn’t deserve.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

But tomorrow came faster than expected, as if the future were never somewhere else, but all along part of the fabric of every present, merely untwining itself again and again into a new distinction that could never be new again.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future.

~ Stephanie Perkins

The price we pay for the anticipation of our future is anxiety about it.

~ Carl Sagan

The future was always before you. That was kind of the point of the future.

~ Kate Hattemer

And everything soon must change. Men would set their watches by other suns than this. Or time would vanish. We would need no personal names of the old sort in the sidereal future, nothing being fixed. We would be designated by other nouns. Days and nights would belong to the museums. The earth a memorial park, a merry-go-round cemetery. The seas powdering our bones like quartz, making sand, grinding our peace for us by the aeon. Well, that would be good - a melancholy good.

~ Saul Bellow

I've learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth... I must walk away. I owe it to myself... I owe it to my future.

~ Steve Maraboli

You're the creator of your own future. Get to writing.

~ Ashley Brooke Robbins

Never believe the lines on your hands that predict your future. Because people who don't have also have future.

~ Moosa Rahat

I have a vision,I have a will.So I own my life and I control my future

~ Mohammed Sekouty