Clifford D. Simak Quotes

To the soul, there is no past and no future; all is, and will be ever, in now. For artificial purposes time is mutually agreed on, but there is really no such thing.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.

Everything vanishes, falls apart, doesn't it? Nature is always the same but nothing in her that appears to us lasts. Our art must render the thrill of her permanence, along with her elements, the appearance of all her changes. It must give us a taste of her Eternity.

Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

I've come to think that the universe is a four-dimensional site in which nothing is changing and nothing is moving. The only thing that is moving along the time axis is our consciousness. The past is still there, the future has always been here. Every moment that has existed or will ever exist is all part of this giant hyper-moment of space-time.

that which is eternal within the moment only becomes shallow if spread out in time.

-tomorrow is our permanent address and there they’ll scarcely find us(if they do, we’ll move away still further:into now

Tomorrow! - Why, tomorrow I may be Myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years.

In the end, there is no end.

...and time becomes a forgotten detail.

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.