temporal uncertainty Quotes

You never know how much time you'll have.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

What I have figured out is that I can predict the future. I just can't predict when.

where is here, when is now??

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Hangs in the uncertain balance of proud time.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain.

Life is so brief and time is a thief when you're undecided.

And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.

The hard part is, of course, the proximity of death. The number has no meaning as long as you're fit and healthy. But you know that you only have so much time left and you don't know how much it is. It could be a very short time.

That which we have lived is nothing; that which we live is a point; that which we have to live is not yet a point, but may be a point which, together, shall be and shall have been.

I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

The present is haunted by the X-present. I call this manifold of present and X-present 'nowness': a shifting, haunted region like evaporating mist; a region can't be tied to a specific timescale.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?