Future Quote by David Viscott

An emotional debt is hard to square.

— Iceberg Slim

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

— Samuel Johnson

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes…

— Freya Stark

As borrowers, we may feel guilty about running up debt, anxious about making payments, and resentful of the constraints that old obligations (and old…

— Virginia Postrel

But the morbidity of sorrow-not cultivated sorrow, but that which comes inevitably-is often a productive sluggishness, a time when the soul slows down, too…

— Eric G. Wilson

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

While most of us are trying to be more frugal, the loss of a job, a divorce, or a medical emergency can quickly sink…

— Lisa Madigan

Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.

— Alain de Botton

Your sorrow? I feel that. Your pain? I know the feeling. Your past? I won't ask. A new future? I can offer you that.

— Raghib Clitso

Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.

— Suze Orman

Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.

— Moliere

We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget,…

— Jill Lepore