Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In fact, this is a world without future. In this world, time is a line that terminates at the present, both in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
“I've decided that has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
"The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in their houses.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share
![“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].” quote by Alan Lightman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c8d/alan-lightman-2270_cost_such-is-the-cost-of-immortality-no-perso_1378362.png)
