Quotes About Temporality

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

La diferencia estriba en lo pasajero y permanente frente a lo transitorio y estable: lo primero aparece y desaparece; lo segundo tiene residencia fija.9

Se todos os prazeres fossem acumuláveis, se não fossem apenas recorrências no tempo,

Before, during, or after intercourse (the only three possible descriptions of time).

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

It takes time, or does time take it?

There was no 'before' the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.

All things that have form eventually decay. -Orochimaru

Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, nothing lasts forever.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

To what extent is Chan amenable to a historical approach, if it is indeed? Can this teaching, as [D. T.] Suzuki thought, traverse the claim of history in the name of its own temporal character? If not, to what extent is it threatened by the results of the historical inquiry?

Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.

We often think that our affairs, great or small, must be tended continuously and in detail, or our world will disintegrate, and we will lose our places in the universe. That is not true, or if it is true, then our situations were so temporary that they would have collapsed anyway.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

The effect of gender is produced through the stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures, movements, and styles of various kinds constitute the illusion of an abiding gendered self. This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity to one that requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality.

arhitecture domesticates limitless space and enable us to inhabit it, but it should likewise domesticate endless time and enable us to inhabit the continum of time

There can be no meaning in what will someday be lost. Passing glory is not true glory at all.

Time came slowly and passed slowly, so leisurely that at times he could swear it had stealthily doubled back on itself.

The old temporality is losing its effectiveness and moving into the background. Many people go on mumbling the old words, but in the light of the newly revealed sun, the meanings of words are shifting rapidly and are being renewed. Even supposing that most of the new meanings are temporary things that will persist only through sundown that day, we will be spending time and moving forward with them.

Temporality and the transformation of energy are two very important aspects in my work.

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.