The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941Quotes
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.
—Niccolò Machiavelli, 1531Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler and speaks even when not asked.
—Euripides, c. 425 BCGod seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCThe world began without man, and it will end without him.
—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1955We 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, 1620My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946The future comes like an unwelcome guest.
—Edmund Gosse, 1873As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
—Charles Darwin, 1859