Temporal Perspective Quotes

Life is long. But it goes fast.

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

It is permissible even for a dying hero to think before he dies how men will speak of him hereafter. His fame lasts perhaps two thousand years. And what are two thousand years?... What, indeed, if you look from a mountain top down the long wastes of the ages? The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare.

Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.

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?

The past is over; the present is fleeting; we live in the future.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

The best time is always yesterday.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

Life is short, but the years are long.

I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment.