Quotes About Temporal

The present is not marked off from a past that it has replaced or a future that will, in turn, replace it; it rather gathers the past and future into itself, like refractions in a crystal ball. — Tim Ingold from "The Temporality of the Landscape," World Archaeology (vol. 25, no. 2)

No blessing lasts forever

One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. 

January was moments, and January was a year

Tempus fugit.

Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.

I have already told you of the sickness and confusion that comes with time travelling. —H. G. WELLS

Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. . . .

Time was doing what time always does, going faster & faster as if downhill.

All things in this world change and pass away— some after many years, some overnight.

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

El hombre vive mas en el tiempo que en el espacio.

Although the realization of values in a culture may seem on the surface to be concerned merely with the temporal and material, this is appearance only, for man is a spiritual being destined for eternity, exhaustively accountable to his Creator-Lord.

Don't get me wrong. A good marriage, adequate financial resources, even a clean home and well-behaved children do bring some measure of happiness. However, temporal blessings, as wonderful as they may be, are only a taste of the real thing. They cannot sustain inner happiness any more than eating a scrumptious meal keeps tomorrow's hunger at bay.

Except it'll still be summer," Plum said. "Backward seasons.

[Mortals] say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

That idea of time cannot be located in space, though it has endless spatial manifestations, both physical and symbolic.

Looping" was a slang term for Closed Loop Temporal Field Containment. They popped the criminal in an eight-minute repetitive time loop for five, ten, twenty years. Usually it was a Laundromat, doctor's waiting room or bus stop, and your presence often caused time to slow down for others near the loop. Your body aged but never needed sustenance. It was cruel and unnatural—yet cheap and required no bars, guards or food.

Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

Le temps des hommes est de l'éternité pliée

La pasividad de una cosa espacio temporal se constituye a partir de su relatividad existencial.Una existencia relativa no puede ser más que pasiva puesto que la menor actividad la liberaria de lo relativo y lo constituiría en lo absoluto.

Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another.

time is what shields us from eternity.