"Sadness is no more than a bit of……" — Alan Lightman
"Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum."
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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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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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As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever…
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More Acid Quotes
This quote is filed under Acid Quotes,
one of 285 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
— Dan Aykroyd
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
— Lester Bangs
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
— Ugo Betti
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I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver…
— Nicolas Cage
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Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.
— Earl Nightingale
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What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a…
— Johnny Ramistella
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Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
— Samuel Chadwick
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Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying…
— Watchman Nee
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Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and…
— Pierre Trudeau
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I believe that with the advent of acid, we discovered a new way to think, and it has to do…
— Ken Kesey
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