People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
—Edmund Burke, 1790Quotes
Tomorrow never comes, man. It’s all the same fucking day.
—Janis Joplin, 1972The future...something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
—C.S. Lewis, 1941We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.
—Jean de La Bruyère, 1688I’ve seen the future, brother; it is murder.
—Leonard Cohen, 1992Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them; it is destiny which makes them prudent.
—Voltaire, 1764I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
—Thomas Jefferson, 1816I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury, 1992As 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, 1859Fate leads the willing and drags along those who hang back.
—Cleanthes, c. 250 BCDo not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 150 BCLittle folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCMy interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
—Charles F. Kettering, 1946