Frank Herbert Quotes

Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

Time has only a relative existence.

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

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people.

I've got absolutely no real perception, properly, of time.

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

Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.