Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

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

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

Time is indeed the theater and seat of illusions; nothing is so ductile and elastic. The mind stretches an hour to a century, and dwarfs an age to an hour.

Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it.

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

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.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

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

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

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

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

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

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

Time collapses and expands like an erratic accordion.

I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others. And then, at other times, every second was significant, etched in my mind.