Future Anxiety Quotes

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

I have one good characteristic: I'm a pessimist, so I always imagine the worst - always. To me, the future is a black hole.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on human experience.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

I didn't want to be 50 or 60 and auditioning for a three-line role.

I think that people are so insecure in their jobs, they're so uncertain that the people they work for really care about them, they're so uncertain about what their kids are looking at in the future, that people are reluctant to take any risks for change.

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Lots of people with little kids or babies with Down syndrome tell me they aren't afraid of the future for their child because of what I am doing to help people understand it better.

Today, we say the only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo.