Human condition Quote by Carl Sagan

“What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and…

— Carl Sagan

“A million years is a short time - the shortest worth messing with for most problems. You begin tuning your mind to a time…

— John McPhee

“Who would have imagined a creature that has lived thousands of years would find itself short of time.”

— Mike Mehalek

“A thousand years in one body is long enough for any man; at the end of that time, his mind is clogged with memories,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Seven thousand years is just one day at a time”

— Terry Pratchett

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

— Emile Chartier

“If our 14 billion year cosmic history were scaled to 1 year, then 100,000 years of human history would be 4 minutes, and a…

— Max Tegmark

“I think maximum lifespan is about a hundred years. Compared to human history, a hundred years is quite short. So if we utilize that…

— Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams

“thousand years ago the average life expectancy of mankind was only twenty-five years. It took another nine hundred years to extend that to thirty-seven.…

— James Rollins

“You can’t count a hundred years on your own, of course. But there are two of us. If we each count fifty years, then…

— Takuya Asakura

“Nonetheless, out of a life of 60 or 70 years, three years is more than a thousand days and a thousand nights”

— Alija Izetbegović

“950 years. After the flood, the lifespan”

— Craig Hines