Futurity

He spoke of a new era that was dawning upon the world; an era that would link soul to soul, and the present life to what we call futurity, with a closeness that should finally convert both worlds into one great, mutually conscious brotherhood. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

The revelation of the secrets of futurity is sweet to one at first, but bitter and distasteful to our natural man, when we learn the cross which is to be borne before the crown shall be won. ❋ Unknown (1871)

In the midst of an eloquent and impassioned remonstrance with the Sceptic who, even when overwhelmed by the disasters of a present world, renounces all trust in futurity, she weaves some touching reflections upon a catastrophe, the remembrance of which will ever fall with surpassing sadness upon the spirit of a great people. ❋ Unknown (1819)

I am the celestial Spirit to whom eternal futurity is known. ❋ Unknown (1806)

As though pursuing the serpentine river that in a Claudean painting unifies the diminutive human foreground with its vast skies, we now follow this "wanderer Man" into the "boundless void" of "futurity" -- or, in more painful moments, back into this human dilemma: "when affliction bade his spirit bleed,/If 'twere a Father's love or Tyrant's wrath decreed?" ❋ Unknown (1998)

To the extent that apocalyptic eschatology is retained in the New Testament this mythological conception has the existential meaning of representing futurity, that is, the charismatic, or the character of grace of God's liberating word: new life fulfills itself solely in the acceptance of the “freedom of the children of God.” ❋ WALTER SCHMITHALS (1968)

On the third point: hope implies a defect, namely the futurity of blessedness, which will cease when blessedness is present. ❋ Unknown (1954)

Reply Obj. 3: Hope implies a certain defect, namely the futurity of happiness, which ceases when happiness is present: whereas fear implies a natural defect in a creature, in so far as it is infinitely distant from God, and this defect will remain even in heaven. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

But we must remember that the dull vision of mortal man cannot pierce the veil of futurity, which is as crystal to the all-beholding eye of the First ❋ Lee Hawkins Garby (1922)

When men have once allowed themselves to think no more of what is to befall them after life, they readily lapse into that complete and brutal indifference to futurity, which is but too conformable to some propensities of mankind. ❋ Unknown (1838)

As for futurity, that is a sealed book which no man hitherto has been able to open. ❋ William Carleton (1831)

Distance of place always supposes the existence of the things that so differ: futurity, which is ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

And the more I consider this point, the more I am persuaded of the truth of that opinion - Though the distrust of a futurity is a strange error; yet it is an error into which bad men may naturally be distressed. ❋ Unknown (1812)

This “we” – a collectivity already written into the fabric of the poem – constitutes a kind of futurity within Beowulf that posits a world beyond its composition and recitation – a world that will actively engage it in a time which is, for the poem, fundamentally not yet. ❋ Mary Kate Hurley (2007)

Mrs. Makebelieve sat contemplating that futurity which is nothing more than a prolongation of experience she could smile contentedly, for all was very well. ❋ James Stephens (1916)

I thought the way in which she brought in the word "futurity" almost sublime. ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)

A certain type of race, known as a "futurity," involves periodic payments of entry fees toward future events, which can be deducted currently even though the animal may be unable to participate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

*I said [I'd do it] later mom *What time later!!!! *[I dunno]. [Sometime] in the future I guess *********************************************** ❋ Puzzling Trials (2018)

[Norman] "Nick" goes to [OU] but I think he's too stupid to realize that he no longer has [a bright future]. ❋ TurnM3Up (2019)

Woah sometimes [Jotaro] doesn’t [simp] for [no bitch] doesn’t that make him a future ❋ I Will Make A Trending Word (2020)

That [computer] is [futureal] [What is] real? [Futureal]! ❋ The Wicker Hombre (2011)

[Latavious]: Yo B what you listening to? Brandon: That new future! [Throwaway] Pt.2 will change a nigga life Ex. 2 Kelly: Why is Beyoncé singing the national anthem [Moksha]: Right! These executives couldn't book Future to sing it ❋ Ky1GigEm (2015)

[CID]: Hey John what's a future? [Meza]: Something [you don't] have. ❋ ThatOneLeftOutGuy (2017)

[Dude] almonds are the future ❋ Penice21 (2019)

I've just been [sitting] here [futurizing] about us [and how] amazing our lives will be together. ❋ Demayome (2018)

1.[21] jigawatts? 1.21 jigawatts? [Great Scott]! / [The future]. ❋ Dr. Marc Pierson (2005)

You Future’s [new] [song] is [fye]. ❋ Schliemann (2020)