Quotes About Temporality

present-time Events are somehow being formed by the future, and the future is somehow looping back into present

So, I begin each day with a gesture of cynicism, and close it with a gesture of faith; or, if you prefer, begin it by reminding myself that, for me at least, goals and objectives are without value, and close it by demonstrating that the fact is irrelevant. A gesture of temporality, a gesture of eternity. It is in the tension between these two gestures that I have lived my adult life.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

The city is a device for measuring time.

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.

what do all the objects in the world have in common if not the fact of being- and of being nothing but- the provisional permanence of certain changes.

Possessions are mere transient effects that come when they are required, and after their purpose has been served, pass away.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

Humans build their societies around consumption of fossil water long buried in the earth, and these societies, being based on temporary resources, face the problem of being temporary themselves.

Past, present, future: where are you?

Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.

We rush through our days in such stress and intensity, as if we were here to stay and the serious project of the world depended on us. We worry and grow anxious; we magnify trivia until they become important enough to control our lives. Yet all the time, we have forgotten that we are but temporary sojourners on the surface of a strange planet spinning slowly in the infinite night of the cosmos.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

Ogni cosa sotto il cielo finisce, e se si ritiene che la temporalità ne infici il valore, allora nulla che sia reale ottiene mai il successo.

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Hay menos tiempo que lugar, no obstante, hay lugares que duran un minuto y para cierto tiempo no ha lugar.

Don't be proud when happy and don't get disheartened when sad, remember that all our moods are temporary joy, pain, love, hate and this will all pass.

I think time stands quite still and we move around in it, sometimes slowly and sometimes at a furious rate.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

To constitute...is nearly the opposite of to institute: the instituted makes sense without me, the constituted makes sense only for me and for the 'me' of this instant...The instituted straddles its future, has its future its temporality, the constituted depends entirely on the 'me' who constitutes (the body, the clock).

There is an intemporal which works on the inside of time, which is, rather, omnitemporal.