We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely

We must look upon what is to occur as having already occurred, and see nothing but the present in the future, for the future is but the present a little farther on.

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.

Our past is but a former now, our future a potential one.

Knowing the future is part of that future's past. Perhaps the foreseen happens because we try to change it.

This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be.

By being unknowable, by resulting from events which, at the sub-atomic level, cannot be fully predicted, the future remains malleable, and retains the possibility of change, the hope of coming to prevail; victory, to use an unfashionable word. In this, the future is a game; time is one of the rules.

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s in the future. I’ll stick to the present.

Such a small thing to cast such a long & uneasy shadow over the future. For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: it just won't be the same.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

nothing can be known, save what is true;