Elif Safak Quotes

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable.

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

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.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

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

All experience is now. Now never ends.

The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

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

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Today is always here,' said Sethe. 'Tomorrow, never.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

Antiquity! thou wondrous charm, what art thou? that being nothing art everything? When thou wert, thou wert not antiquity - then thou wert nothing, but hadst a remoter antiquity, as thou calledst it, to look back to with blind veneration; thou thyself being to thyself flat, jejune, modern! What mystery lurks in this retroversion? or what half Januses are we, that cannot look forward with the same idolatry with which we for ever revert! The mighty future is as nothing, being everything! the past is everything, being nothing!

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

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

You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time.

Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still.

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

As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.