Yann Martel Quotes

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 isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Also, I had not yet found out about time; I was still under the illusion that I had plenty of time - time for this, time for that, time for everything, time to waste.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

I never thought that it would take me so long to do something. I thought everything was temporary and sometimes the best thing you have working in your favor is a bad sense of time. In order to sit down and write a book that takes six years you have to have a screwed up sense of time because that's too daunting. No one is going to pick up a pen and a piece of paper and say, "Okay, six years, here we go."

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

To be in time is to be asleep: to be awake is to be in eternity.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

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

Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily to regard time as non-existent. One year was like another year. Eventually everything would happen.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

The future is a concept, it doesn't exist. There is no such thing as tomorrow. There never will be, because time is always now. That's one of the things we discover when we stop talking to ourselves and stop thinking. We find there is only present, only an eternal now.