Archive

Quotes

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.

—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BC

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

—Albert Camus, 1951

All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

—William Jennings Bryan, 1899

The world began without man, and it will end without him.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955

I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.

—Leonard Cohen, 1992

Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531

The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.

—George Moore, 1888

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

—Ray Bradbury, 1992

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

—Arthur Koestler, 1967

Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.

—Janis Joplin, 1972