Clifford D. Simak Quotes

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.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been great changes.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Every moment is as real as every other. Every 'now,' when you say, 'This is the real moment,' is as real as every other 'now' - and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too.

Since time is a continuum, the moment is always different, so the music is always different.

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.

The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

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.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Time is an illusion anyway. You can create as much time as you want.

You realize time isn't just a period that you tell a story within - it becomes a major character in the film. There is no beginning, middle, end because there is always stuff beginning and ending simultaneously.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

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

The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and...the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

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.