Loren Eiseley Quotes

But the point is, now, at this moment, or any moment, we're only cross-sections of our real selves. What we really are is the whole stretch of ourselves, all our time, and when we come to the end of this life, all those selves, all our time, will be us - the real you, the real me. And then perhaps we'll find ourselves in another time, which is only another kind of dream.

The essence of being human is that, in the brief moment we exist on this spinning planet, we can love some persons and some things, in spite of the fact that time and death will ultimately claim us all.

Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

If there were no internal propensity to unite, even at a prodigiously rudimentary level - indeed in the molecule itself - it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us, in hominized form... Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

Before birth; yes, what time was it then? A time like now, and when they were dead, it would be still like now: these trees, that sky, this earth, those acorn seeds, sun and wind, all the same, while they, with dust-turned hearts, change only.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Death is only a small interruption.

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

...I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.

time is a tree (this life one leaf) but love is the sky and i am for you just so long and long enough

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.

On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.