Time Quotes by Alan Lightman

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

— Alan Lightman

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

— Alan Lightman

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

— Alan Lightman

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

— Alan Lightman

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

— Alan Lightman

Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

— Alan Lightman

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

— Alan Lightman

A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed…

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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.

— Alan Lightman

I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern…

— Alan Lightman

The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages.…

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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

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“The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence,…

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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…

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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement…

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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only…

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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

Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.…

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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the…

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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about…

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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the…

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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal,…

— Alan Lightman

A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement…

— Alan Lightman

“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed…

— Alan Lightman

“Will these millions of children, for generations upon future generations, know that some of their atoms cycled through this woman? [...] Will…

— Alan Lightman

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…

— Alan Lightman

I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and…

— Alan Lightman

“Consider a world in which cause and effect are erratic. Sometimes the first precedes the second, sometimes the second the first… Each…

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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.

— Alan Lightman

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the…

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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and…

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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room…

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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could…

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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or…

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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope,…

— Alan Lightman

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. The tragedy…

— Alan Lightman

“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if…

— Alan Lightman