Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

Old is always fifteen years from now.

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.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

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.

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

The now, the here, through which all future plunges into the past.

Not only is the past of a person with no memory inaccessible; his ability to think about the future is imperilled. Time travel, then, is ultimately - and paradoxically - an exercise in remembering. And without that capacity it simply cannot exist.

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.

To read is to voyage through time.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward-toward what?

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

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.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back. Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you've been.

Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the future, but, to challenge the contradictory nature of what we have just said, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the future is just an immense void, that the future is just the time on which the eternal present feeds.

The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Time neither moves nor is stationary. Time changes.