Iain Sinclair Quotes

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

Whatever will happen will happen.

Trend is not destiny.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

Changing anything in the past, if you believe it's possible, could alter the entire future of the world, including my own birth, so I'd change nothing. Not a thing. As for the future... I think I'd like to see how it all ends, which is probably why I write about the future apocalypse so frequently.

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

As I look down the path to the future I see before me the footprint of the hand of fate.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.