David Mitchell Quotes

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

History hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist? (155)

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

You have to know the reality and the reality is that we are eternal.

The past is always with us, for nothing that once was time can ever depart.

I believe that nothing that is real can pass away.

It is not possible that we should remember that we existed before our body, for our can bear no trace of such existence, neither can eternity be defined in terms of time or have any relation to time. But notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

The past cannot survive in your presence. It can only survive in your absence.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?

The present is the only thing that has no end.

We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

Well, sir, if things are real, they’re there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.