Time Continuum Quotes

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us

The past is the present and the future too.

The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

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

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.

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

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

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.

And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end.

The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

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

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.

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.

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.