Future Quotes

"Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what to-morrow has in store?" ~ Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy "What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer—the Future so much brighter?" ~ Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past's mistakes and the future's fears. ~ The Big Time by Fritz Leiber The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. ~ Dune by Frank Herbert If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. ~ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star. ~ Villette by Charlotte Bronte Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future. ~ The Time Machine by H. G. Wells We looked into the darkness of futurity as a child gazes after a rocket up in the cloudy sky, full of wondering expectation of the rattle, the discharge, and the brilliant shower of sparks and light. ~ Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell We are sons of yesterday, not of the morning. The past is our mortal mother, no dead thing. Our future constantly reflects her to the soul. ~ The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith