"Is it possible for a person to love……" — Alan Lightman
"Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?"
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
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