Quotes About Finite

We only have so much time, Mary," I remember saying. "Time will kill you – it really will.

In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in reality and in the mind. In this world, no person can imagine the future.

Accept that infinite occurrences of the universe cannot be fathomed by the finite human mind.

I had set myself an unattainable ideal. Such human skill I could summon wasn't enough for the job. I felt the suicidal despair of all who longed to do what they couldn't, what only a few in each century could – whether blessed or cursed in spirit. No achievement was ever finite. There was no absolute summit. No peak of Everest to plant a flag on. Success was someone else's opinion.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

It's all so very high school. By that I mean it's ephemeral. Even this pain will be fleeting, finite.

I hear what many of you are saying: We don't have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

the world presents itself as tantalizing fragments of a lost whole. Caught in the foreground, he can't see the underlying background. Caught in the "myriads of forms," as the Hindus say, he can't find the Oneness that would bring him calm and stability. Living on the finite side of the prism, he can only experience light in its dazzling but fractured rainbow hues.

Time is your most precious commodity and it is nonrenewable

But if she is allowed to move at constant speed without pausing at Zeno's imaginary checkpoints—and why not?—then the time it takes to travel each of Zeno's intervals is proportional to the distance covered in that interval, and so since the total distance is finite, as is the total time—and fortunately for all of us—motion is possible after all.

Love transports mortal beings to the existential plane of spiritual eternity transcending the emotional, mental, and physical limitations of an inaccurately perceived finite existence.

But we all waste opportunities,' said Domenica. Every single one of us. Every young person does it. It's because we think we have so much time, and then, when we realise that our time is finite, it's too late.

sorrow at the realisation that food was finite.

The boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.

The greatest commodity to own is land. It is finite. God is not making any more of it.

In physical, exponentially growing systems, there must be at least one reinforcing loop driving the growth and at least one balancing loop constraining the growth, because no physical system can grow forever in a finite environment.

Understanding layers of limits and keeping an eye on the next upcoming limiting factor is not a recipe for perpetual growth, however. For any physical entity in a finite environment, perpetual growth is impossible. Ultimately, the choice is not to grow forever but to decide what limits to live within.

infinite growth on a finite planet

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.