124 Quotes About Past-and-future

He wanted to leave the past a few hundred miles down the road, shake it off like dust. But that ws the problem with the past. It kept finding him.

Human mortality threatens a person’s ontic self-affirmation. Life is a dream within a dream. The past is nothing, the future is an illusion, and my own existence is a trifle. If I can stop living a life of artifice and face my own nonbeing with courage, I will no longer suffer from the demons of damnation.

LIFE IS LIKE RIDING A TRICYCLE. TO KEEP THE FUTURE IN HARMONY WITH THE PAST AND THE PRESENT, ONE SHOULD KEEP FIGHTING FOR PEACE

NO PAST CAN MAKE YOUR FUTURE AND NO FUTURE CAN MAKE YOUR PRESENT

PRESENT IS A JOURNEY BETWEEN THE PAST AND THE FUTURE

You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons.

History should not be just a light to the past but a signal light to the future.

It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.