The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955Quotes
I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCDestiny 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, 1899The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCA change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1732