Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Quotes
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
—Walt Whitman, 1856I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688It 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, 1620Fate 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, 1790The world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816The less a man knows about the past and the present, the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.
—Sigmund Freud, 1927Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 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, 1884