Home > Topic > only the future
1 " the past is only the future with the lights on. "
2 " My heart was in my mouth. I realised that I had no desire to know any more about her past. What was behind her made me feel sick, petrified. Only the future mattered now. "
3 " There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits. "
― Hannah Arendt , The Origins of Totalitarianism
4 " Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. ... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely because only the future has intrigued them. "
