“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand
Source: Fool's Errand
“The past is no further away than the last breath you took.”
Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand
Source: Fool's Errand
“The future is more beautiful than all the pasts.”
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest
Letter (5 September 1919), in The Making of a Mind: Letters from a Soldier-Priest 1914–1919
Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer
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Mea culpa; suivi de la vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis (1937)
“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
1810s
“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
Sara Shepard (1973) Author
Source: Unbelievable
“I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.”
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer
As quoted in The Reader's Digest (October 1994), p. 185
“Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past…”
Gabriel García Márquez book Living to Tell the Tale
Living to Tell the Tale (2002)