Temporal Existence Quotes

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived—forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

Robert, you are just a transient. I have seen them come and I have seen them go and I’ll be here long after you have gone.

What falls away is always. And is near.

You are a soul that is temporarily utilizing your body.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

All objects exist in a moment of time.

No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

Does killing time damage eternity?

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.