Quotes About Irreversible

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone.

Time's arrow is irreversible, because entropy cannot decrease of its own accord without violating the second law of thermodynamics. A reversible arrow would be like a movie run backward. The scenes in the movie are not impossible by the laws of classical mechanics, but they are patently absurd.

I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.

he had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.

Du passé, c'est mon enfance qui me fascine le plus ; elle seule, à la regarder, ne me donne pas le regret du temps aboli. Car ce n'est pas l'irréversible que je découvre en elle, c'est l'irréductible : tout ce qui reste encore en moi, par accès.

For a long time, he had resisted an irreversible shift to pipes for fear of antagonizing the railroads, but this concern had lost its force. When Standard Oil constructed four pipelines from western Pennsylvania to Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Buffalo, he pressured the railroads to grant it right-of-way concessions, even though the pipelines signaled their doom.

that it's easy enough to shoot a man. But there's absolutely no way to unshoot one.

This is the enemy, what is irreversible, what has already reached the farthest of places. There is no going back. They can bomb bus-loads of tourists, burn the American flag, but they are not shooting the enemy. It is already with them, inside them, what makes them resentful, defensive, what makes them no longer confident of their vision of the world.

Death is not a sudden-all-at-once affair; cells go down in sequence, one by one. You can, if you like, recover great numbers of them many hours after the lights have gone out, and grow them out in cultures. It takes hours, even days, before the irreversible word finally gets around to all the provinces.

es inútil seguir luchando más tiempo; da igual que me salte la tapa de los sesos, todo está terminado. - Es la última tontería que hay que hacer - dijo Athos -, dado que es la única que no tiene remedio.

Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.

I feel in the depths of my soul that it is the highest, most sacred, and most irreversible part of my obligation to preserve the union of these states, although it may cost me my life.

Europe must dissipate any doubts over the euro, affirm that the euro is an irreversible project and act in consequence.

All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set in motion irreversible changes leading to our extinction.

El silencio de la muerte es el peor de los silencios, porque el silencio rulfiano es un silencio aceptado y el rimbaudiano es un silencio buscado, pero el silencio de la muerte es el que corta de tajo lo que pudo ser y nunca más va a poder ser, lo que no sabremos jamás.

No hagas lo que no puedas deshacer, hasta que hayas considerado lo que no podrás deshacer cuando lo hayas hecho.

the birth of the twins and what happened to them, although traditional, has transformed me as irreversibly as soaking cloth in a vat of dye.

Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to.

What's done cannot be undone. What's set into motion takes on a life of its own.

Just know that what's done can be undone, but what's undone can never again be.

It's an easy thing to make a man a carcass. He knew a thousand ways to do it. But once you've done it, there's no going back. One minute he's a man, all full up with hopes, and thoughts, and dreams. A man with friends, and family, and a place where he's from. Next minute he's mud.

By the time I knew it was a mistake, it was too late to come back. That's usually how it is.

The beginning of the end, the irreversible separation of the mainland of truth into islands of seperate realities, came with the Western attacks on Afganistan following 9/11.

I am mighty, world-destroying Time.