God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Quotes
My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946Every man takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
—Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941The 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, 1688Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
—Albert Camus, 1951I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1890The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992