V. S. Pritchett Quotes

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

We are tomorrow's past.

There’s a big difference between history and the future.

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

That was in the past - we're in the future now.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

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

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

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

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

And I can't wait to see where the road leads from here.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.