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, 1888Quotes
The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCTime will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCNot 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, 1884I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955It would be madness, and inconsistency, to suppose that things which have never yet been performed can be performed without employing some hitherto untried means.
—Francis Bacon, 1620The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688