Futurity Quotes

#1. something to be attained by special virtuous techniques, the less real it becomes. As it becomes less real, it recedes further into the distance of abstraction, futurity, unattainability. The

Thomas Merton

#2. I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Oliver Goldsmith

#3. life is then, in sum, "constantly deciding what we are going to be."[78] As a result, our life is intrinsically a collision with the future. Thus, "life is futurity, it is what it is not yet."[79]

Oswald Sobrino

#4. When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Maria Edgeworth

#5. Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.

Rachel Kushner

#6. It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

Joanna Baillie

#7. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.

Stephen Baxter

#8. Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.

Allen Ginsberg

#10. Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

Joanna Baillie

#11. Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Horace Greeley

#12. Who can prophesy peace, or vow Futurity for any but armed insects

Allen Ginsberg

#13. The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#14. All futurity wears the head of an insect.

Andrew Joron

#15. Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Edmund Burke

#16. Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.

Horace

#17. Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath ... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will be abiding wrath, or wrath still coming. When millions of years and ages are past and gone, this will still be wrath to come. Ever coming as a river ever flowing.

John Flavel

#18. Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#19. I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain, in thrall to its outlaw hormones, had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering.

William Styron

#20. All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

William Blake

#21. The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#22. It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy.

Charles Caleb Colton

#23. To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Samuel Johnson

#24. Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

Friedrich Schiller

#25. Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

Francis Atterbury

#26. The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

Sean O'Casey

#27. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin

#28. No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!

Pope Leo X

#29. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Samuel Johnson

#30. A blot in thy escutcheon to all futurity.

Miguel De Cervantes

#31. They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.

Samuel Johnson

#32. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.

William Samuel Johnson