Quotes about Temporality
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.
— John Updike
All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.
— Marcus Aurelius
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
— James 4:14
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
— 1 Peter 1:24
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.
— William Law
Sic transit gloria mundi [So passes away the glory of this world].
— Thomas a Kempis
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— John Updike
In short, know this: Human lives are brief and trivial. Yesterday a blob of semen; tomorrow embalming fluid, ash.
— Marcus Aurelius
In fact, Luther says the "great idol Mammon" has anointed "three trustees—rust, moths, and thieves"—that ought to remind us of the temporality of possessions.12
— Scot McKnight
The passage of time is always relative to that which does not pass, to the timeless.
— James Carse
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
— William James