Prince Quotes

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

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

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

For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes.

Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesn't go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

I've been bothered about time generally and our tripartite division of time into past, present, and future. I think I know what the past is, and I think I know what future is, but I'm really not comfortable with the notion of present.

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

I feel as though maybe our concept of time and space is very limited. Maybe everything is all happening at once, if you know what I mean.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

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

Abstracts are real and time is a lie, it cannot be measured when one moment can expand to hold everything.

The past isn't real because it's history, and the future isn't because it hasn't happened yet. I like it, it hints at virtual reality, which I think is how we sort of feel about life sometimes.

The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

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.

what was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

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

Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.

Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.

But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”5

But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.