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Quotes About Temporal

Time is the soul of this world.
~ Plutarch
Time is that in which all things pass away.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Time is the dressing room for eternity.
~ Anonymous
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
~ Johann von Goethe
Time is a very shadow that passeth away.
~ Apocrypha
Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Sva od stvarnosti, a sama nestvarna, koja nije ni ono što je bilo ju?e ni ono što ?e biti sutra; nešto kao prolazno ostrvo u poplavi vremena.
~ Ivo Andri?
The clock stands still yet time does not. Even as he lies here he can feel time at work on him like a wasting disease, like the quicklime they pour on corpses. Time is gnawing away at him, devouring one by one the cells that make him up. His cells are going out like lights.
~ J M Coetzee
Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity....Time is what gives life significance.
~ J.R. Ward
In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.
~ Terence McKenna
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
No mind, no wisdom--tempora ry mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom.
~ Adoniram Judson
Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.
~ Kevin Brooks, Lucas
Time the destroyer is time the preserver.
~ T. S. Eliot
De una cosa podemos estar seguros, muchacho, este alivio temporal de los impuestos acabará en impuestos mayores y en un colapso final. Se trata puramente de un asunto de contabilidad. ¿Pero es que a la gente le importa el presupuesto y la dura realidad de que uno no puede gastar lo que no tiene sin ir a parar a la bancarrota? ¡No! Gritarán "¡viva!" al tirano Cinna, pensando en la ganancia inmediata a expensas de la nación.*
~ Taylor Caldwell
It is not that the turret clocks are running faster. What is happening is that our brains are running slower.
~ Ted Chiang
We experienced events in an order, and perceived their relationship as cause and effect. They experienced all events at once, and perceived a purpose underlying them all.
~ Ted Chiang
We are material beings for but a moment in time, but we are spiritual beings forever.
~ Marianne Williamson
This life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant.
~ Venerable Bede
We all live within time. It rules us.
~ Ned Vizzini
Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.
~ Chris Prentiss
It's like time travel only, you know, slower...
~ Christopher Moore
pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;
~ Christopher Moore
Time is a transparent medium. People and cities arise out of it, move through it and disappear back into it. It is time that brings them and time that takes them away.
~ Vasily Grossman