Quotes About Future

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

What will be the physiognomy of painting, of poetry, of music, in a hundred years? No one can tell. As after the fall of Athens, of Rome, a long pause will intervene, caused by the exhaustion of consciousness itself. Humanity, to rejoin the past, must invent a second naiveté, without which the arts can never begin again.

As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future. Is this only to console ourselves for being excluded from it? Yes in appearance, no in fact, for the future has always been hideous, man being able to remedy his evils only by aggravating them, so that in each epoch existence, is much more tolerable before the solution is found to the difficulties of the moment.

Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in the present, and even in the past.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

Nu te temi de viitor decât atunci când nu eÅŸti sigur c? te poÅ£i omorî la momentul dorit.

Ma vision de l'avenir est si précise que, si j'avais des enfants, je les étranglerais sur l'heure.

Se poate prevedea destinul unui om, dar nu cel al unei c?r?i.

Our epoch will be marked by the romanticism of the stateless. Already apparent is the image of a universe in which no one will have droit de cité. Inside every citizen nowadays lies a future alien.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air. All History is in a state of petrification; its odours shift toward the future: we rush toward it, if only for the fever inherent in any decomposition.

Though we ourselves have come too late, we shall be envied by our immediate successors, and still more by our remote descendants. In their eyes we shall have the look of privileged characters, and rightly so, for everyone wants to be as far as possible from the future.

The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave it to you to face the Incredible itself.

I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand years. And even harder, a dialogue that will occur in not ten thousand but even a thousand years from now.

As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Za?o?y? rodzin?. My?l?, ?e ?atwiej by mi przysz?o za?o?y? imperium.

Misfits … It seems to me that their adventure, more than any other, sheds a light on the future, that they alone allow us to glimpse and to decipher it, and that if we set their exploits aside we utterly disqualify ourselves from describing the days to come.

The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity...

We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

The Future awaits us in order to immolate us: the mind records nothing but the fracture of existence now, and the senses still vibrate only in the expectation of disaster…

A man who sees too far, who is contemporary with the whole future, can no longer act or even move. . . .

Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.

Recapitulate the history of ideas, acts, attitudes and you find that the future was always on the side of the rabble.