„You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.“

— Chuck Palahniuk

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„The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation. … Both are illusions.“
— Eckhart Tolle
„You could give me the past,“ he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.“
— Cassandra Clare
„We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„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.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald