Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Tomorrow is going to be different than yesterday, it's going to be a lot different.

History shows you don't know what the future brings.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.

No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.

It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Everything changes.

It is interesting to see all you fellows here. It will even be more interesting to see how many of you will be here a few months from now.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

For sure, life takes many twists and turns, and one never knows what the future might hold.

Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?

Any time you make a change, and a major change, as you try to establish something, there's a lot of question marks there on what's going to happen moving forward.

We simply have never been able to predict what our next challenge will be.

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Things can change in a day.

and if there is a way to find you, I will find you. but will you find me if Neil makes me a tree

Nothing is destroyed until it is replaced.

The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shall blow them none knows whither.