Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings, or future fears. None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.
The future is the worst thing about the present.
Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.
Everywhere I looked, demons of the future [were] on the battlegrounds of one’s emotional plane.
I think about work all the time. I was in my bathroom yesterday and thought, 'I could never work again.' I don't have a job lined up right now - what if I never get another one?
I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears.
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.
When you are single, you're invested in the world because you have to be, because that's all you've got. When you have a kid, it's not more or less; it's just a different way of worrying about the world. And worrying about the world after I'm dead.
But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears.
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life.
