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Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

The one thing we know about the future is that it will not be like today. I don't think that people should be too anxious about not knowing what they are going to do in the future, because we really can't know.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.