Longing for the Future Quotes

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it

And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because their very nature is to move into the future.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.

I get off on anticipating and waiting much more than I get off on the actual event.

Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy precipitate constituted by the world of today.

But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.

So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

We part more easily with what we possess, than with our expectations of what we wish for; because expectation always goes beyond enjoyment.

We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.