Susan Sontag Quotes

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

Time itself is an element.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

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

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

Time, that most abstract of humanity's homes.

Time is our element, not a mistaken invader.

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

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.

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)

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.