future – secretive dreams

billellsworth:

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.”

— Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin (via violentwavesofemotion)

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
(via books-n-quotes)

When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

Campaign season is the only time of public debate about what we want for the future. It can change consciousness even more than who gets elected. In short, campaigns may be the closest thing we have to democracy itself.

Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

José Ortega y Gasset (via withnailrules)

It’s only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Erich Maria Remarque, Three Comrades (via wordsnquotes)