quotations about the future
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
Meditations
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.
CHINA MIéVILLE
Kraken
Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.
TRACY LETTS
August: Osage Country
He only is anxious about the future, to whom the present is unprofitable.
SENECA
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales
The future ain't what it used to be.
YOGI BERRA
There is no PAST anybody can get to, to alter things or even to know what those things were but there is definitely a future, we are already in it.
JOYCE CAROL OATES
Zombie
Coming events cast their shadows before.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
It is today that we must create the world of the future.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Tomorrow Is Now
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.... You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
JOHN GREEN
Looking for Alaska
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.
BILL CLINTON
Whether we shape the future in the image of our hopes, is ours to determine by our actions and our choices.
RICHARD NIXON
Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1969
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.
GEORGE LEONARD
The Silent Pulse
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
The Second Sex
The future will soon be a thing of the past.
GEORGE CARLIN
Napalm and Silly Putty
If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Mabeth
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
HENRIK IBSEN
Love's Comedy
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
Tomorrow will be a new day.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSON
Calvin and Hobbes