The Future Quotes

“There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, haven't we? Try not to live in the future.

[Brendan O'Hea] Or the past.

[JD} Well, you have to live a little in the past, because it's part of us, it's who we are. But don't -dwell- in the past. God, we should make the best of every single second we have.”
― Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

“No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays

“The world is surprising. It had undiscovered stores. It is not yet wholly given. There will be new gestures, new questions, new forms of life. The capacity to welcome them, to make room for them (to accommodate without crushing them), to learn from and be transformed by them depends on the provision of this “quiet yet live holding”---in this form. Then in all its further expected and unexpected, tested, and as yet unimagined forms.”
― Kate Briggs, The Long Form

“The oasis is always over the next hill. And the next hill is always more of the same desert.”
― Cynthia Ozick, Antiquities

“The day was new now, as it is new every morning.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Future

“What a brave and ignorant new world it will be when folks stop reading books." - Suzy Davies”
― Suzy Davies

“It's Time!”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Not even for a moment can you be in the present moment while regret or hope is present in you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And so here - after then, and after that - we are”
― John Elizabeth Stintzi, My Volcano

“You cannot change the Past. The Present and Future are the only things you can exercise some control over—this is true for the one who Warps and the one who does not.”
― Baron Friedich von Berger, Time Warping for Beginners

“This is a crooked and perverse nation, friend. People are more worried about economy than ecology. JESUS! The lack of money makes life difficult, alright, but the presence of radiation and deathkulture chemicals is the very antithesis of life itself…and people run around arguing about the price of goddamn pantyhose.
One thing we MUST prevent, therefore, is letting the Church become a soporific, a “drug” that lets us accept the death of all life on Earth. Yeah, THAT’S funny, HA HA! This better not become some god-awful End Times PORN for those who can only “get off” on fear-and-laughter. The Church should make it easier to conceive of the humans’ inconceivable threat to themselves, but ONLY IF THAT MAKES US DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
THAT is the whole point.”
― Ivan Stang, The Book of the SubGenius

“What is happening is both reality and reality in the making.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I want to move on from now. I want to grasp the future that is available to me and stop fixating on what I've done. I'm not alone, I've never been alone; I just had the wrong idea of what loneliness meant. I want to stop pretending I believe what I've been taught happiness is: I have to find out for myself.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“The present moment is the entirety of reality.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The passage of time is as real as the movement of an animated object.”
― @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To look back on the happiness we have already experienced, is safe. Those memories of a happy time are something that nothing can change nor take from us. The happiness of the present and future is less certain. At any moment, it can disappear...”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“Tomorrow is always different," he said. "Whether it will be better, however, is another thing entirely and much less certain.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“It matters not what a man was yesterday,” my grandfather told me, still speaking in a low voice. “It matters only what he is today and what he will be tomorrow.”
― T.M Cicinski, A Patchwork Of Moonlight And Shadow

“[With] prophetic insight: My conclusion is that only the potential for the future can be seen. The future can be changed. The psychic reads the map, but free will decides the path we take.”
― Craig Hamilton-Parker, Your Psychic Powers: A Beginner's Guide

“The future has no owners, except those who prepare for it today.”
― Dwayne Mulenga Isaac Jr

“It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years? (asked Mr Ramsay ironically, staring at the hedge). What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare. His own little light would shine, not very brightly, for a year or two, and would then be merged in some bigger light, and that in a bigger still.”
― Virginia Woolf

“A Lie (Artificial Intransigence) by Stewart Stafford

The morrow lies beyond
The grasp of our hands,
Fogged coastal shadows
Of mountains in distant lands.

Deities of tech Olympus,
Subhuman to simulated will?
Sage genius cannot tell,
But hubris claims to still.

The synthetic brainchild,
Squats on shoulders high
Of eyeless seers' vision,
Our sentient clone - AI.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Yes, but open revolution is another matter. It is one moment in the people’s life, and it is the price we have to pay for all our progress. No doubt fearful things will happen; they must in every revolution. But they will be isolated facts–exceptional features of an exceptional moment.”
― E L Voynich

“One day this apartheid will be a thing of the past. Our people will be free.’
‘Maybe. But the past claws its way out. You can’t bury it just like that. It’s not like human flesh. And yet we need to move forwards.”
― Niq Mhlongo, For you I’d steal a goat

“I'll read alone for now," Lewis replied, knowing the only thing more terrifying than seeing his future through his own eyes would be seeing it through hers.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“People always say you should live every day as though it's your last. I sort of have taken the opposite tack, where I think you should live every day as though it's going to go on forever. You should treat people like you're going to see them again in the future. You should start working on projects that may take a long time.”
― Peter Thiel

“I remain easily optimistic in the face of everything happening. Consider the most amazing person you personally know, by any quality metric you choose. Odds are that there are literally millions of their caliber in the world, which is plenty to build a bright future.”
― John Carmack

“Think like a perpetual student not a graduate. The future belongs to innovative thinkers not Degree Holders.”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“I'm a very, you know, lucky guy. I've got a lot going for me: I'm healthy, I'm relatively young, I'm White...which, that God for that shit, boy. That is a HUGE leg up. Are you kidding me? Oh, God, I love being White. I really do. Seriously, if you are not White, you are missing out. Because this shit it thoroughly good. Let me be clear, by the way. I'm not saying that White people are better. I'm saying that being White is clearly better. Who could argue? If it was an option, I would re-up every year.

"Oh, yeah, I'll take White again, absolutely. I've been enjoying that. I"m gonna stick with White, thank you,"

Here's how great it is to be White: I can get into a time machine and go to any time, and it would be fucking awesome when I get there! That is an exclusively White privilege. Black people can't fuck with time machines! A Black guy in a time machine is like, "Hey, anytime before 1980, no thank you, I'm don't want to go."

But I can go to any time! The year 2. I don't even know what's happening then, but I know when I get there...

"Welcome, we have a table right here for you, sir."

"Thank you. Oh, it's lovely here in the year 2."

I can go anytime...in the past. I don't want to go into the future and find out what happens to White people because we're going to pay hard for this shit, you got to know that. We're not going to just fall from number one to two. They're going to hold us down and fuck us in the ass forever. And we totally deserve it. But for now, wheeeeee!”
― Louis C.K.