Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

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.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could we leave it behind?

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

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.

Time has only a relative existence.

Time is not a linear flow, as we think it is, into past, present, and future. Time is an indivisible whole, a great pool in which all events are eternally embodied and still have their meaningful flash of supernormal or extra - sensory perception, and glimpse of something that happened long ago in our linear time.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

Years should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only-the bird does not know how old it is-the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

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

The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.

The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.