Fear Of Future Quotes

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

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.

It's always easier for people to face backward than to face forward.

I think people are scared of progress and change.

The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety.

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

If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice.

In former times humans had fear of the future. Today the future must have fear of humans.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

All fear comes from trying to see the future, Biff. If you know what is coming, you aren't afraid.

...can I tell you something...? I don't think you're in love with the past. I think you're scared of the future.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo – even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

I don't want to have life figured out and then wonder, "What's next?" That seems scary to me.

We're afraid to move on, that's why there's so much nostalgia on the internet... 'cause we don't wanna look forward, that's scary.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.