Jack Vance Quotes

You can only have a short sight because things change a lot. You can't plan what the years will bring.

You never know what's going to happen, not just after two months, but tomorrow, you never know what's going to happen.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

I don't think I'm going to live until I'm 70, no; I could die tomorrow. So there isn't a panic that time is running out, but there is an element that anything could happen.

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

To-day we love what to-morrow we hate; to-day we seek what to-morrow we shun; to-day we desire what to-morrow we fear.

The world is unpredictable.

We take life... we should take it more seriously, because you never know what's going to happen tomorrow.

I never look forward. I live for today. And if you think about what's going to happen in a year, in two years, then you begin to plan. And plans never come true.

In this business, you can't make any plans.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

It can be here today and gone tomorrow.

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening?

Our permanent address is tommorrow.

We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

I've never planned ahead.I just sort of go through life checking the menu of three meals that day. I never worry about tomorrow. It's only since I've gotten older that I've begun to wonder about time running out. Is it sufficient unto itself that I don't plan? Because maybe next Thursday won't come one day. And then, I'm concerned about that. But that's not uniquely the writer's concern, that's the concern of every middle-aged man who looks in the mirror.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.