“It’s only when you’re forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future.” — Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
“Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.” — Bernard Crick, In Defence Of Politics
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to an idealised past.” — Robertson Davies, A Voice from the Attic
“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 Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms
“I went back to staring tomorrow in the face. Better than looking backward. But tomorrow refused to shed its mask.” — Glen Cook, The Black Company
“Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy, Address in Paulskirche, Frankfurt (1963-06-25)
“We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” — Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.” — Sydney J. Harris, On the Contrary
“The luxuries of the present are the necessities of the future. Our grandfathers never had a bath-room.” — John Fisher, Letter to Winston Churchill (1912-01-16)
“The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein, letter of condolence to the Besso family (March 1955)
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