Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on I understood…

— Milan Kundera

“The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our…

— Will Durant

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Self-loathing was on the agenda for the foreseeable future and he found it hard to imagine a way past it.”

— Neil Walker

“The promises of the future cannot undo the harm of the past.”

— Sharon Shinn

“The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water.”

— Harley King

“But now, by saying what his future was going to be like, he had created it. A plan is a real thing, and things…

— John Steinbeck

“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone…

— Thomas Pynchon

“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

— Milan Kundera