e. e. cummings Quotes

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

It's proven that how time moves for you depends on where you are in the universe. It's relative to beings and other places. But on the level of being here on earth, if you are aware in a moment, one second can last a year. And if you are unaware, your whole childhood, your whole life can pass by in six seconds. But it’s also such a thing that you can get lost in.

The problem with waiting for someone, whether that wait is an hour or a lifetime, is everyone's 'clock' is different. So what you might consider forever is only a little while to them, or vice versa.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

A million years went by quick.

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

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

Two seconds are a thousand years.

This required abandoning the idea that there is a universal quantity called time that all clocks measure. Instead, everyone would have his own personal time. The clocks of two people would agree if they were at rest with respect to each other but not if they were moving. This has been confirmed by a number of experiments, including one in which an extremely accurate timepiece was flown around the world and then compared with one that had stayed in place. If you wanted to live longer, you could keep flying to the east so the speed of the plane added to the earth

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.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Time has only a relative existence.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each one differently.

It's like time travel only, you know, slower.

Because time is a drop in the ocean, and you cannot measure off one drop against another to see which one is bigger, which one is smaller.

It takes forever if you go by inertia.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

You know the movie "Rashomon" from [Takeshi] Kurosawa, when all the people in the forest see something different? Each performance was like that.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.