#Future

"Now hollow fires burn out to black,And lights are fluttering low:Square your shoulders, lift your packAnd leave your friends and go.O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you treadThere’s nothing but the night."

"The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing."

"Kein Philosoph würde ein dickes Buch schreiben, wenn er im Vornherein wüsste, auf welche Weise er später zitiert werden wird."

"The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come true."

"Your future is only as bright as your mind is open."

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

"The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."

"As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves."