The future is kind of a bleak place.

“Life is a bleak place. Sometimes you have to learn how to shoot first.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I try not to think too far into the future; I'm kind of a day-by-day kind of guy.

— Red Gerard

This kind of art - the dystopic future kind of art - is designed to make you uncomfortable.

— Laeta Kalogridis

Solar energy is bound to be in our future. There's a kind of inevitability about it.

— Jim Inhofe

The future kind of gets less intimidating when you're the one shaping it.

— Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science…

— Elizabeth Moon

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

— Paolo Bacigalupi

I felt cheated by the way grown-ups told me that the future of the world was bleak when I became a teenager in the…

— Matt Ridley

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

— Viktor Orban

You cannot find yourself in the past or future.The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.

— Regina Malabago

“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

— Andrea Arnold

Single-sex private schools, especially in the middle of nowhere on a bleak hill in County Durham - I don't think they make sense.

— Giles Deacon