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.

Oscar Wilde

33 quotes

Mark Twain

29 quotes

Albert Einstein

28 quotes

Marilyn Monroe

22 quotes

Friedrich Nietzsche

19 quotes

Maya Angelou

17 quotes

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

16 quotes

Allen Klein

14 quotes

Anaïs Nin

11 quotes

Mahatma Gandhi

11 quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

11 quotes

C.S. Lewis

10 quotes

Emily Dickinson

10 quotes

John Lennon

10 quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.

10 quotes

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Albert Camus

9 quotes

Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

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Charles Bukowski

9 quotes