The future is called “perhaps,” which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you. – Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. – Ruth Benedict
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. – Arthur Wing Pinero, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 1893
We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. – Charles F. Kettering
I never think of the future – it comes soon enough. – Albert Einstein
And in today already walks tomorrow. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The future is always beginning now. – Mark Strand, Reasons for Moving
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. – Eric Hoffer
The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. – John Sladek
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
Tomorrow is fresh, with no mistakes in it. – L.M. Montgomery
You can never plan the future by the past. – Edmund Burke, "Letter to a Member of the National Assembly"
I have seen the future and it is very much like the present – only longer. – Kehlog Albran
I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. – Author Unknown
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. – Voltaire
The course of life is unpredictable… no one can write his autobiography in advance. – Abraham Joshua Heschel
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. – William Shakespeare
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
