Quotes about tomorrow
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“Today we love what tomorrow we hate,
today we seek what tomorrow we shun,
today we desire what tomorrow we fear,
nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.”

Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist

Love, Hate, Fear

“I had learned this lesson so many times
before. It was the great inner truth that
didn't require the support of logic. Every
time I loved, I lost, and I was diminished.
I wondered how much of me would be left
after tomorrow.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Love, Truth, Support, Learning

“I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.”

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

Reality

“I am not afraid of tomorrow
for I have seen yesterday
and I love today”

William Allen White (1868–1944) American newspaper editor and politician

Love, Inspirational

“If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.”

Robert Jordan Lord of Chaos

Variant: Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
Source: Lord of Chaos

Dance, Dead

“I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

God, Waiting

“The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Walk

Dreams, Time, Weather

“I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it and I'll maketake him for a driving lesson tomorrow."

Dad backed away from the counter. Ash scowled. I laughed and continued upstairs.”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

Source: The Rising

Food

“How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow when there's just no figuring out today?”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Personality

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

Euripidés Alcestis

Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 783-4

Confidence

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2

World, Travel, Change

“Fang: When do I get out of here?
Max: They say a week.
Fang: So, like, tomorrow?
Max: That's what I'm thinking.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

Thinking

“Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.”

Dr. Seuss book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960)
Variant: From there to here,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.
Source: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish

“Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Iggy nodded. “I’m bummed we couldn’t use Big Boy,” he said. “But I don’t want to waste it. We have to actually see them first. I mean, you do.”
“Maybe tomorrow,” the Gasman said encouragingly. “We’ll go see what havoc we’ve wreaked.”
“Wrought.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Boy

“Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Future

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Failure, Waiting, Success

“Trust in tomorrow… Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow.

—Alex Morales to Miranda Evans”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

Life

“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

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

For Men

“The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.”

Nick Bantock (1949) British artist

Decision

“Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Life, Thinking, Future

“Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.”

Philippa Gregory book The White Queen

Source: The White Queen

“Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“How do you feel right now?"
"I hurt like hell."
"You'll feel worse tomorrow."
"So?"
"So, better get a jump on this while you still feel… not as bad."
"What kind of logic is that?" I retorted.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Feeling, Hell, Hurt

“I learned not to fear infinity,
The far field, the windy cliffs of forever,
The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow,
The wheel turning away from itself,
The sprawl of the wave,
The on-coming water.”

Theodore Roethke (1908–1963) American poet

Fear, Light, Learning, Water

“Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow”

Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist

Source: Perfect Fifths

Way, Appearance

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“Do not worry about tomorrow until you have to.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

Margot Bickel (1958) German poet

Peace, Silence, Past

“There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap.

And what would that be sir?

Me”

Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who

“She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Slightly Wicked

Wine

“None of us can know what tomorrow will hold, because each day has its good and its bad moments.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

“Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?”

Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet

Source: Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thinking, Past

“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”

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

Source: The Collected Poems

Past

“Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"…"But I thought it was just the one time?”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

School, Time

“Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.”

Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)

“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”

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

Death

“Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Night

“I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear.
'It's good practice for you,' she replied, her lips moving against his skin.
'Tomorrow, fishnets.'
Against her side, warm and familiar, she felt him laugh.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.”
“I thought you'd chase cars,” I said.
He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance

Source: The Killing Dance

Cars, Night

“Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.”

Robert Jordan The Dragon Reborn

Source: The Dragon Reborn

Travel, Fish

“But where I itty now, O my brothers, is all on my oddy knocky, where you cannot go. Tomorrow is all like sweet flowers and the turning vonny earth and the stars and the old Luna up there and your old droog Alex all on his oddy knocky seeking like a mate. And all that cal. A terrible grahzny vonny world, really, O my brothers. And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lip music brrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: Fiction, A Clockwork Orange (1962)

World, Music, Star, Flowers

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

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Love, Dreams, Good Night

“And I kissed away a thousand tears
My lady of the Various Sorrows
Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen
Some kept safe for tomorrow.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Kiss, Tear

“Just in case the world ends tomorrow," she said. "We might as well enjoy today.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

World

“And what constitutes evil, real evil, is the taking of a single human life. Whether a man would die tomorrow or the day after or eventually… it doesn't matter. Because if God does not exist, then life… every second of it… Is all we have.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Life, God, Evil

“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Source: On Humanism

“to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

World, Departure

“There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.”

James Patterson book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

“It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'

'I got it covered.'

'The DiMarcos might be in town.'

'Actually, they're in jail.'

'All seven of them?'

Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

“To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today.”

Barbara Johnson (1947–2009) American literary critic

Children, Memory, For Parents

“If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer

Time

“Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after”

Grace Lee Boggs (1915–2015) social activist and feminist

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Love

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

Problem

“you'll see, jane,' he promised her. 'you'll forget me, and it won't hurt tomorrow. besides, you said it yourself: love means you cαn never be apart. so we'll never be apart, jane, becαuse i love you so much. i'll always, always love you.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Love, Hurt, Forgetting

“There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before…”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“All I get is tomorrow.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”

Zeena Schreck (1963) Tantric Buddhist/Sethian

Nostalgia

“Tomorrow was over the horizon, and would take an entire day to reach.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Hope, Time

“‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

Source: Midnight's Children

People, Time

“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Feeling, Forgetting

“Today should always be outlawed in favor of tomorrow”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

“A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.”

Beryl Markham book West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

Travel, Idea, Change

“If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Understanding

“Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.”

Thrity Umrigar book The Space Between Us

Source: The Space Between Us

Water

“Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.”

Henry Miller (1891–1980) American novelist

World, Thinking

“Nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Nostalgia

“Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.”

Cathy Hopkins (1953) English writer

Drink

“I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Halt's Peril

Food

“…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Birthday, Thinking

“I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Books, World, History, Change

“I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.”

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

Dreams, Motivation, Question, Funny

“If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.”

Lloyd Alexander book Taran Wanderer

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 17 (Llonio)

Joy

“Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?"

"What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said.

"Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

“To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

Quotes, Past

“There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now you're growing. Tomorrow you'll shine.”

Carol Plum-Ucci (1957) American writer

Source: What Happened to Lani Garver

Life, Way, Time

“Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Into the Dreaming

Love, Hope, Memory

“Tomorrow is promised to no one.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

Change

“I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.”

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

Feeling, Thinking

“me: why is it upset? shouldn't it be downset?
gideon: i will file a lawsuit against the dictionaries first thing tomorrow morning. we're going to tear merriam a new asshole and throw webster inside of it.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Tear

“If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

Love, Way

“tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Joy, Sad, Deep, Happy

“For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Book of Tomorrow

Waiting

“Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to get it right.”

David Baldacci book Absolute Power

Source: Absolute Power

Chance

“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People, Dreams

“hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Complete Poems, 1904-1962

Hate, World, Fear, Universe

“The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. They had become stories. Nobody brought up the bad names or the bad times. And nobody felt sad as long as we could postpone tomorrow with more nostalgia.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Nostalgia, Time

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Time

“we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

Truth

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