Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCQuotes
The 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, 1620I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856He alone who owns the youth gains the future.
—Adolf Hitler, 1935Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764Do 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, 1946Destiny 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