Remote Future

Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or future:

    “The places which I have described may seem strange and remote to my townsmen ... our account may have made no impression on your minds. But what is our account? In it there is no roar, no beach-birds, no tow-cloth.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)