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Quotes About Temporality

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
~ John Steinbeck
Doesn't everything," he says, "die at last and too soon?
~ Anthony Doerr
Mas o tempo corre, e as nossas sensações com ele se modificam.
~ Machado de Assis
me?utim i ovo naše sadašnje razdoblje nestaje, i to možda brže od svih ostalih.
~ Saul Bellow
All things transitory But as symbols are sent.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In truth, much of human social life—our morality, our relationships—revolves around challenges posed by intertemporal choice.
~ John Brockman
All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
~ Marcel Proust
Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.
~ Edward William Fudge
Nepaisant vis? baimi? ir laikinumo, gal vejami nekaltumo, o gal biologini? d?sni? buvome pasaulio valdovais.
~ Antonio Soler
In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.
~ Marcus Aurelius
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
~ Maya Lin
Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.
~ Haruki Murakami
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
~ Graham Greene
I sometimes think that there is nothing but time, that what you see and what you feel is what time looks like at that moment.
~ Paul Thek
If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable
~ T. S. Eliot
Lord, how the day passes It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly if we do.
~ John Ernst Steinbeck
Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.
~ John Locke
Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.
~ Elizabeth Berg
the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless.
~ George Carlin
El carácter sucesivo de la escritura se aviene mal al discurso casi siempre instantáneo o simultáneo de la vida.
~ Salvador Elizondo
There is always time to take more time.
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
~ Lennart Meri