Quotes About Future

You don't know what happiness lies before you yet, you are now only in the commencement of your journey.

Two years hence you will be as calm as I am now, - and far, far happier, I trust, for you are a man and free to act as you please

And winter's chill is on my heart- How can I dream of future bliss? How can my spirit soar away? Confined by such a chain as this?

Her speculations on the future are full of buoyant hope - so were mine once. I shudder to think of her being awakened like me to a sense of their delusive vanity.

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool, but it will never substitute for holding the book. I feel certain that at least within my lifetime, everyone will still be going to the bookstore and buying printed books. Thank God I'll die before I have to worry about whether the printed book itself will disappear. That's something I don't want to live to see.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can Ii never come true.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Tampoco en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

en el futuro le tendré miedo a la verdad, puesto que cuanto más se la pospone, tanto más difícil es enfrentarla.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while photos and a few rare objects show our pride, our rare shining moments ... these rooms are future ruins

So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?

Exchange information, learn to talk sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future.

History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It's not the unknown past we're doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?

The good past is so far away and the near past is so horrible and the future is so perilous, that the present has a chance to expand into a golden eternity of here and now.

The American woman is still relatively free to choose the wider life. How long she will hold this enviable and precarious position no one knows. But her particular situation has a significance far above its apparent economic, national or even sex limitations.

Because we cannot deal with the many as individuals, we sometimes try to simplify the many into an abstraction called the mass. Because we cannot deal with the complexity of the present, we often over-ride it and live in a simplified dream of the future. Because we cannot solve our own problems right here at home, we talk about problems out there in the world. An escape process goes on from the intolerable burden we have placed upon ourselves.

The people to be saved stretched without end into the future.

For how many people does fear of the future take away the present as well?