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

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.
~Terri Guillemets

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

The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance.
~Abraham Joshua Heschel

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
~Jim Bishop