Future Past Quotes

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

I was late to the franchise; 'Days of Future Past' was the first X-Men movie I saw.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.

The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last

As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn't. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.