Alan Lightman Quotes

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

My bits of time play with eternity.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

How good is life, the mere living!

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?

Life is not measured by the time we live.

6.4311 Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist. 6.4311 Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!