The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy. — 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
A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed… — 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
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or… — 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
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
In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and… — 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
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and… — 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
“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, sometimes the second the first… Each… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time." "They do not keep clocks in… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, and sometimes the second the first.… — 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… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sounds. He is agonized. For… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That's good time. I have a couple hobbies.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages.… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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
“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 Image
“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 Image
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
"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 Image
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 Image
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Image
Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much. — 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 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/quotes/img-quotes/c8d/alan-lightman-2270_cost_such-is-the-cost-of-immortality-no-perso_1378362.jpg)
