Top 100 No Future Quotes
#1. I'd be really jealous of me too. I mean, what's not to envy? No friends, no family, no future - but it's OK because guess what? I'm the White Light. Well Whooppeee Do.
Sarah Alderson
#2. The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.
John Fowles
#3. I was used to feeling like I was never gonna see myself at the finish line.
Hanging on to parts of me, hanging on at all. I was used to seeing no future in my sight line.
Sara Quin
#4. Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#5. Butch didn't live in his own place. He didn't spend his own money. He had no job, no future. He was a well-kept pet, not a man.
J.R. Ward
#6. A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.
Croft M. Pentz
#8. I have no future,' said Hanno. 'I need no prophecy. You talk too much, woman.
William Nicholson
#9. If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#10. That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.
C.S. Lewis
#11. I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Mike Tyson
#12. With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Haruki Murakami
#13. Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
Dalai Lama
#14. The past is always triple-A. We can all remember what the past was. But if we try to make the future triple-A, we have no future. The future is always single-B.
Michael Milken
#15. If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
Anthony De Mello
#16. Any society that is silencing its women has no future.
Hafsat Abiola
#17. No future triumph or metamorphosis can justify the pitiful blighting of a human being against his will.
Peter Wessel Zapffe
#18. They said no future forget it
You came from the wrong side of town
I said don't listen don't let it
Let it bring you down
Make you wear a frown
Dieter Bohlen
#19. There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
Charles De Lint
#20. We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.
David Graeber
#21. If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.
Neil Gaiman
#22. The cycle of reprisal and counter reprisal that had characterized their national history had to be broken and that the only way to do this was to go beyond retributive justice to restorative justice, to move on to forgiveness, because without it there was no future.
Desmond Tutu
#23. Today Mitt Romney is 68 years old. It's kind of sad, a 68-year-old guy with no job, no future - wait a minute, that's me.
David Letterman
#24. Capitalism works. In the end, socialism imploded on itself. Communism imploded on itself. Ultimately jihadism will implode on itself, if we stay in the fight and stay on offense because failed philosophies don't work, there's no future.
Roger Ailes
#25. A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.
Charles Platt
#26. Like some people in life, a lot of my characters have no future.
Jack Tate
#27. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.
T.A. Uner
#28. There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
James Joyce
#30. Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
Desmond Tutu
#31. I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone.
Rachel Gibson
#32. All you have to do is relax and feel your history, because it will never go away and there is no future without it.
Ray Davies
#33. There is no future in waiting for tomorrow.
Wes Fesler
#34. No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.
Alice Corbin Henderson
#35. I also don't understand why I should let some guy fondle me when I know the relationship has no future.
Katherine Applegate
#36. Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
Lord Kelvin
#37. The boy (then a 12 year old boy named Anatoly Karpov)doesn't have a clue about Chess, and there's no future at all for him in this profession
Mikhail Botvinnik
#38. AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.
Lester Thurow
#40. It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
Alan Lightman
#41. Anything you like; anything I like ... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us
Jean Rhys
#42. A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.
T.J. Fisher
#43. Without the past, there would be no present. No future. I don't regret a moment of it. It all brought us here. To this place. To this moment. To this love.
Sarah MacLean
#44. Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.
Alan W. Watts
#46. Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future
ABC
#47. Here, I thought, I had found the human race in its final stages of decadence perverse, insouciant, without ambition. And I could not blame them. After all, they had no future.
Michael Moorcock
#48. All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.
Rajneesh
#49. Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.
Brian Tracy
#51. The person who has no deputies or assistants has no future.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.
Franz Beckenbauer
#53. It is a sad but very real truth that there is no future for relationships where spaghetti and chocolate milk does not play a major role.
Chuck Tingle
#54. No future and no humanity, no communism and no anarchy is worthy of the sacrifice of my life. From the day that I discovered myself, I have considered myself as the supreme PURPOSE.
Renzo Novatore
#55. An eternally changing world offers no future for which you must aim. With no future to aspire to, you are free to live fully in the here and now.
R.L. Prendergast
#56. Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Elie Wiesel
#57. A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.
Vladimir Putin
#58. The model of competitive equilibrium which has been discussed so far is set in a timeless environment. People and companies all operate in a world in which there is no future and hence no uncertainty.
Paul Ormerod
#59. Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Desmond Tutu
#60. Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation - choosing to be a human being rather than a human doing.
Ian Gawler
#61. No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.
Dorothy Richardson
#62. It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
George Harrison
#63. As to any sense of inequality, or youthfulness, or other difficulty in our way, little Em'ly and I had no such trouble, because we had no future. We made no more provision for growing older, than we did for growing younger.
Charles Dickens
#64. We shall sleep on moss for many nights, till the beasts of the body come to tear our body. We have no bed now, save the moss,and no future, save the beasts.
Ayn Rand
#65. The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.
Paul Craig Roberts
#66. When you think you have no future, it's strange how pure you can become; but when you find yourself alive, you star to have desires again.
Kyoichi Katayama
#67. The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.
Jonathan Larson
#68. I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.
Stephen Reid
#69. She has no past, no future. She exists purely in the moment. Drunk
Paula Hawkins
#70. I am any man's suitor,
If any will be my tutor:
Some say this life is pleasant,
Some think it speedeth fast,
In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past.
We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die.
Who will riddle me the how and the why?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#71. There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don't see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.
Frederick Lenz
#72. There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.
Tom Wilson
#73. There's no reality without battles and no future without fights.
Henning Mankell
#74. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.
Phil Knight
#75. If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
Ai Weiwei
#76. I have become convinced that we must put an end to atonement theology or there will be no future for the Christian faith. This
John Shelby Spong
#77. There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Thomas Hardy
#79. Let me show you what life is like lived in the moment. No past, no future, just the one perfect moment you're standing in and there's no guilt and there's no shame and there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of ...
Tiffany Reisz
#80. If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.
Wu Cheng'en
#81. The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.
M.R. Gott
#82. What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.
Sarah Lacy
#83. No past and no future. Save for the fireworker himself, no one ever knows the grand finale is the grand finale until it's over. And at that point, wherever one is, one won't ever really have been anywhere else.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#84. I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as from remorse or regret. I had no past and would probably have no future; I was buried alive in a void which was the wound that had been dealt me. I was like the wound itself.
Henry Miller
#85. It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air.
P.D. James
#86. Each day of war takes us farther from all we could hope to be or do. We gain nothing but heartbreak, and lose everything we cherish. Our lives erode and diminish, our children see no future except a calendar of anguish and death. Our only hope for tomorrow is for peace now.
Lloyd Alexander
#87. What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.
Lev Yashin
#89. Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.'
Hassan Nasrallah
#90. Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
Oscar Wilde
#91. There is no future. This is the season. Get to the Super Bowl.
Troy Vincent
#92. I never thought it was fair for an 8-year-old child not to be able to afford shoes, or to wander the streets having to beg for money. To know that child's joy would end soon, when they realised there was no future.
Shakira
#94. People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.
Sparky Anderson
#95. Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.
Dalai Lama
#96. You may have no family, no food, no clothes, no future, no spouse, no health, or no children, yet be rich beyond your wildest dreams because you have the Holy Spirit in your life.
Jill Briscoe
#97. There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.
Louis O. Kelso
#98. The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future,
Ian McEwan
#99. I've lived out my melancholy youth. I don't give a fuck anymore what's behind me, or what's ahead of me. I'm healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!
Henry Miller
#100. To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available.
George Orwell
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