Time Quotes by Philip Pullman

Once upon a time lasts forever

— Philip Pullman

“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, ‘Come along o’ me, it’s time.”

— Philip Pullman

We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.

— Philip Pullman

“Was there only one world, after all, that spent its time dreaming of others?”

— Philip Pullman

Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

— Philip Pullman

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

— Philip Pullman

Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

— Philip Pullman

“Thou shalt not might' reach the head but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart. Also: We need stories…

— Philip Pullman

“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt…

— Philip Pullman

“The world is a cruel place sometimes, and warm-hearted people do most of the good in it. And much of the time,…

— Philip Pullman

“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we’ll cling together…

— Philip Pullman

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces…

— Philip Pullman

There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing…

— Philip Pullman

“But if we get education right... it would acknowledge that the path to true learning begins nowhere else but in delight, and…

— Philip Pullman

“There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a-coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in…

— Philip Pullman

Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that…

— Philip Pullman

“We can control the future, my boy, just as we wind up the mechanism in a clock. Say to yourself: I will…

— Philip Pullman

“Your death taps you on the shoulder, or takes your hand, and says, come along o' me, it's time. It might happen…

— Philip Pullman

“I guess you are,” said Lee. “You have a strange way about you, Dr Grumman. You ever spend any time among the…

— Philip Pullman

I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which…

— Philip Pullman

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the…

— Philip Pullman

“In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment…

— Philip Pullman

“Will considered what to do. When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out…

— Philip Pullman

“Waste of time," said the leper. "There's a dozen or more beggars who come here every day, pretending to be cripples, hiring…

— Philip Pullman

“Out of the little grove, away from the baffled Spectres, out of the valley, past the mighty form of his old companion…

— Philip Pullman

“Well now,” the Master went on. “We must think about your future, Lyra.” His words made her shiver. She gathered herself and…

— Philip Pullman

And then Serafina understood something for which the witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these…

— Philip Pullman

“Everything about her in that moment was soft, and that was one of his favorite memories later on--her tense grace made tender…

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“I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out…

— Philip Pullman

I don't expect Christians to see God as a metaphor, but that's what he is. Perhaps it might be clearer to call…

— Philip Pullman

The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try…

— Philip Pullman

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a…

— Philip Pullman

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not…

— Philip Pullman

“in writing like this, he was letting truth from beyond time into history, and thus making history the handmaid of posterity and…

— Philip Pullman

There’s been terrible things we seen, en’t there? And more a coming, more’n likely. So I think I’d rather not know what’s…

— Philip Pullman

“I think we need to tell each other everything we’ve found out. And it’ll take us a good long time, and we…

— Philip Pullman

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have…

— Philip Pullman

Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long…

— Philip Pullman

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd…

— Philip Pullman

“I lied and lied, Asriel… Let’s not wait too long, I can’t bear it… We won’t live, will we? We won’t survive…

— Philip Pullman