The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873Quotes
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCPeople will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it—have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.
—James Russell Lowell, 1884Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972