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title: "14 Future Thought Quotes by 13 authors"
description: "Browse 14 Future Thought quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Future Thought sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Once, when Giselle was alive, he thought about the future. Now he only thought about the past.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-albom/once-when-giselle-was-alive-he-thought-about-the-future-now-he-only/)

[Mitch Albom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-albom/)

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> [We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-hempel/we-can-only-die-in-the-future-i-thought-right-now-we-are-always-alive/)

[Amy Hempel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-hempel/)

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> [“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peggy-toney-horton/ah-how-quickly-the-hands-on-the-clock-circle-toward-the-future-we/)

[Peggy Toney Horton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peggy-toney-horton/)

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> [The future is only a thought form. Work with the present moment. Be with what is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eckhart-tolle/the-future-is-only-a-thought-form-work-with-the-present-moment-be/)

[Eckhart Tolle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eckhart-tolle/)

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> [“Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-m-banks/welcome-to-the-future-she-thought-surveying-all-this-wordage-and-tat/)

[Iain M. Banks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-m-banks/)

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> [“Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don’t worry about it. Live each day as if you were to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-a-heinlein/give-the-future-enough-thought-to-be-ready-for-it-but-don-t-worry/)

[Robert A. Heinlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-a-heinlein/)

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> [“In Russia it is always the future that is thought of. It is the crops next year, it is the comfort that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-steinbeck/in-russia-it-is-always-the-future-that-is-thought-of-it-is-the-crops/)

[John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-steinbeck/)

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> [I was from a generation that didn't think that far into the future. We thought opportunities would always exist, that we would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bebe-buell/i-was-from-a-generation-that-didn-t-think-that-far-into-the-future-we/)

[Bebe Buell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bebe-buell/)

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> [“What Tengo would have to do, it seemed, was take a hard, honest look at the past while standing at the crossroads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/what-tengo-would-have-to-do-it-seemed-was-take-a-hard-honest-look-at/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“he thought about the future. He thought about where he was now and where he would have to be tomorrow, and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/santino-hassell/he-thought-about-the-future-he-thought-about-where-he-was-now-and/)

[Santino Hassell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/santino-hassell/)

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> [Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/total-experiences-of-which-there-are-many-kinds-tend-again-and-again/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [I've always enjoyed stories that take place in the future but my one disappointment was that the future books described never came.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-brooks/i-ve-always-enjoyed-stories-that-take-place-in-the-future-but-my-one/)

[Albert Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-brooks/)

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> [“We have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that sense, we have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/we-have-no-idea-now-of-who-or-what-the-inhabitants-of-our-future/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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> [“Of course,” he says, “we have no idea, now, of who or what the inhabitants of our future might be. In that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-gibson/of-course-he-says-we-have-no-idea-now-of-who-or-what-the-inhabitants/)

[William Gibson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-gibson/)

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