“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“When he talks about a future, it's his future. His vacation plans and five-year plan consists of solely his wants and needs. The word ‘we’ never comes into the picture because it never enters his mind.”— Andrea Wesley, thebolde.com
“With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plann…”— John Green, amazon.com
“Sometimes what's left behind can grow back better than the generation before.”— Matthew Broderick, Simba, amazon.com
“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyon…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with o…”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“BoJack, when I was your age, I got sad. A lot. I didn't come from such a great home, but one day, I started running, and that seemed to make sense, so then I just kept running. BoJack, when you get sad, you run straight ahead and you keep running forward, no matter what. There are people in your lif…”— Secretariat, netflix.com
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“The future is scary, but you can't just run back to the past because it's familiar.”— Robin Scherbatsky, amazon.com
“If you're not scared then you're not taking a chance. And if you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway?”— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“I swear that when our lips touch, I can taste the next 60 years of my life.”— Rudy Francisco, genius.com
“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”— Neil deGrasse Tyson, youtube.com