“What is truly unbearable is that the person one recalls as part of the future should suddenly become the past.”

“With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.”

“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”

“It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past.”

“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”

“The truly golden age of the people does not lie in the past, but in the future.”

“When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.”

“Archaeology of the future is what it should be called. Archaeology of the past is very interesting because it tells us what we once were. But archaeology of the future is the study of what we're going to become, what we have a chance to become…it's a missing element in our understanding of the universe which tells us what our future is like, and what our place in the universe is. If there's nobody else out there, that's also quite important to know.”

“Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.”

“The world should be owned by the people living in it. Every person should be seen as living in a world truly his. All persons should be seen as living in a world truly theirs.”