Timothy Morton Quotes

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A feeling for history is almost an essential for writing and appreciating good science fiction, for sensing the connections between the past and future that run through our present.

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.

A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.

Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

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

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

For Yesterday was once To-morrow.

Time has only a relative existence.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.

For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

Time is a person-made concept.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.