Quotes about tomorrow
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“Whatever happens tomorrow, we've had today.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Variant: Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
Source: One Day

“There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.”

Bob Dylan book Chronicles: Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Vol. 1

Time

“Never put off till tomorrow the book you can read today.”

Holbrook Jackson (1874–1948) British journalist

Books, Reading

“let me forget about today until tomorrow”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Forgetting

“Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!”

Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary

“either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow”

Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet

Source: I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Wolf

“You have to wait until tomorrow to find out what tomorrow will bring.”

Haruki Murakami book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Waiting

“So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man."
"Yep"
"What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Mountain

“How am I going to live today to create the tomorrow I've committed to?”

Anthony Robbins (1960) Author, actor, professional speaker

Variant: How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

“I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Thinking

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

Time

“I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli Smiles to Go

Source: Smiles to Go

Feeling

“Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Friendship, Good Night, Goodbye, For Friend

“I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.”

Mark Helprin A Soldier of the Great War

Source: A Soldier of the Great War

“So, tomorrow, I’m leaving. And I’m not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It moves at its own measured pace, for it has no reason to hurry. Tomorrow will come in its own good time.”

Sidney Sheldon (1917–2007) American writer

Source: The Sky is Falling

Time

“Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself..”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.”

Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015) American missionary

Source: Keep a Quiet Heart

Business, Future

“Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

Peace, Peaceful

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American writer

Hope, Hope, Powerful

“Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

“Shakespeare said it best,' Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish, misshapen head. 'Something along these lines: if we die today, we do not have to die tomorrow, so let us look to the best in each other”

Haruki Murakami book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

“Fitz: Shall we get up tomorrow and go looking for a wild pig?
Nighteyes: I didn’t lose any wild pigs, did you?”

Robin Hobb book Fool's Errand

Source: Fool's Errand

“It's probably best for me to work off some energy before I get you naked. I'm sure you'd like to be able to walk tomorrow.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“Never lose your sense of humor. Tomorrow could be worse.”

Carol Higgins Clark (1956) Novelist

Sense

““You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason—if you pick the proper postulates. We have ours and Cutie has his.”
“Then let’s get at those postulates in a hurry. The storm’s due tomorrow.”
Powell sighed wearily. “That’s where everything falls down. Postulates are based on assumptions and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. I’m going to bed.””

Isaac Asimov book I, Robot

Source: I, Robot (1950), “Reason”, p. 63

Faith, Universe

“Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.”

Norton Juster book The Phantom Tollbooth

Variant: What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Secret, Learning, Help

“Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

World

“This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Variant: The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.
Source: Rant

Life, Future

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”

Neil LaBute (1963) Film director, playwright, screenwriter

Source: Reasons to Be Pretty

Strong, Time, Future

“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

God, People, Stupidity, World

“The hour grows late."

"Late? So? Do you have to be on Ash Campus early tomorrow? At the University of Nothing Matters?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Endless Knight

Universe

“Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Raven's Shadow

“Every tomorrow is determined by every today.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

People

“I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sleep

“So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.”

William Broyles Jr. (1944) American screenwriter

Source: Cast Away: The Shooting Script

Sun

“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
Context: We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late."

Life, History, Time

“What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Truth

“Death is an inevitability, isn't it? You become more aware of that when you get to my age. I don't worry about it. I'm ready for it. When I go, I want to go doing what I do best. If I died tomorrow, I couldn't complain. It's been good.”

Lemmy Kilmister (1945–2015) British singer-songwriter

Death, Age

“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

Life, World, Sea

“I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow
by I don't know what.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: In Search of Small Gods

Hope

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”

John Guare Landscape of the Body

Source: Landscape of the Body

Hope

“what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Life, Way

“no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther… And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And then one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby

Past

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)

Happiness

“Speak your latent conviction… Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Sense, Time

“Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.”

Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907) French novelist and art critic

Source: Becalmed

“"Well you'll have to wait 'til tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself. "Look. Jammies."”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 324
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Waiting

“Were I to die tomorrow, my soul would remember you.
~Nicholas Stafford”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Source: A Knight in Shining Armor

Soul

“Today,’ said Lymond, ‘if you must know, I don’t like living at all. But that’s just immaturity boggling at the sad face of failure. Tomorrow I’ll be bright as a bedbug again.”

Dorothy Dunnett (1923–2001) British writer

Source: The Disorderly Knights

Sadness, Failure

“Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Waiting, Forgetting

“No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: She's So Dead to Us

Past

“I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow,
and somehow, each of us will help the other live,
and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.”

Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist

Source: Twenty One Love Poems

Help

“The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year – and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Newspaper interview (1902), when asked what qualities a politician required, Halle, Kay, Irrepressible Churchill. Cleveland: World, 1966. cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 489 ISBN 1586486381
Early career years (1898–1929)

“The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Decision, Past, Dead

“Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

Books

“V'lane: Are you busy tomorrow MacKayla?
Barrons: She's working on old texts with me.
V'lane: Ah. Old texts. A banner day at the bookstore.
Barrons: We're translating Kama Sutra… with interactive aids.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Business

“Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“This is terrific! What fun! Maybe tomorrow I can go to the prom with my brother. The day after, perhaps I can wear white pants and unexpectedly get my period.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

“Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you'll awaken next to someone who loves you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Love, Dreams, Heart

“But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope),…”

Ernest Hemingway book For Whom the Bell Tolls

Source: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Life, Hope

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Love

“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgement. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is “Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying,” but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Author’s Note (pp. 276-277)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)

Life, Happiness, People, Disease

“These flowers will be rotten in a couple hours. Birds will crap on them. The smoke here will make them stink, and tomorrow a bulldozer will probably run over them, but for right now they are so beautiful.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

Beauty, Flowers, Bird

“So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Lost World

Source: The Lost World

Fate

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Being Peace

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”

Michael Landon Jr. (1964) American television director

Life

“The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow.”

Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric

Source: Citizen: An American Lyric

Life, Past

“You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to me, and the same as today, I do wonder, will I be able to say my love to you?" - Gin Ichimaru awww”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Love, People, Cry

“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Bullet

Source: Bullet

Love, Housing

“Tomorrow we will only give them
a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf
which will fall on the earth
like if it had been made by our lips
like a kiss which falls
from our invincible heights
to show the fire and the tenderness
of a true love.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Love, Kiss, Tree

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Life, Dreams, Hope, Soul

“It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

Books, Reading

“And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can't teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Love, Children

“He taught me to trust in tomorrow.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

“Don't think there are no second chances.

Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE…

It's called TOMORROW”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Life, Thinking, Chance, New Year

“I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Context: I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

Freedom, Dead

“He smiled, and suddenly she knew that his words were true. Everything would be all right. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but soon. Tragedy couldn't coexist in a world with one of Colin's smiles.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

World, Smile

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Love, Dreams, Forgetting

“She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
Breathe or like her
Anymore.
Maybe tomorrow the tides
Will stop.
Maybe tomorrow will bring
No more rainbows.
Maybe tomorrow
She will stop
Asking useless questions.”

Gail Carson Levine book The Wish

Source: The Wish

Question

“I'm scared. What will tomorrow bring? It has to be better than today. It has to.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) American author

“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this the night.”

Elena Ferrante book My Brilliant Friend

Source: My Brilliant Friend

Children, Night

“Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.”

Helen Keller book The Story of My Life

Source: The Story of My Life

Failure, Thinking, Success

“What can I do to help thee?" he asked.
"Believe there is a tomorrow.”

James Clavell book Shōgun

Source: Shōgun

Help

“Today will die tomorrow.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

“I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Source: Sackett's Land (1974), Ch. 4

Waiting

“Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there…”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Happiness

“Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better”

Kevin Henkes (1960) American children's illustrator and writer

Variant: Today was a difficult day.
Tomorrow will be better.'
-Mr. Slinger
Source: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Source: Self-Reliance

Thinking

“In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Source: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Context: Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear-drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

Love, Beauty, Star, Distant

“Today is today. But there are many tomorrows”

Dan Brown book The Da Vinci Code

Source: The Da Vinci Code

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

Motivational, Missing You, Positive, Good Night

“Just pity him, my boy. Tomorrow we'll be on our way, but he'll have to keep his own disagreeable company until the day he dies.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Way, Boy

“Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Glory Road

Glory Road (1963)
Context: Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

Way

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