Quotes About Irreversibility

Things, once gone, can't be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can't be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can't be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn't forget, because we have been changed for ever.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Loss comes in every moment. Second by second our lives are stolen from us. What is last will never come again.

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

Once something is done it can't be undone. There's no rewind. No going back.

You can't come back to something that is gone.

Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Ivan Klima dice: casi nada se parece tanto a la muerte como el amor realizado. Cada aparición de cualquiera de los dos es única pero definitiva, irrepetible, inapelable e impostergable.

He was reluctant to open it, for once such a thing is opened, it cannot be shut again.

Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you'll go Then red will be the final glow Now seek the black, there's no going back.

The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are things that happen, like you turn an egg into an omelet, but you can't turn an omelet into an egg.

I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility??of being unable to undo what one has done??is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

After a certain length of time has passed, things harden up. Like cement hardening in a bucket. And we can't go back anymore.

Nobody can ask to have their life declared invalid, and demand that the dice be thrown afresh. There is no going back.

Todas las situaciones básicas de la vida son sin retorno. Para que el hombre sea hombre, tiene que atravesar la imposibilidad de retorno con plena conciencia.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I suppose there's no way of putting the mushroom cloud back into that nice, shiny uranium sphere.

In the same paper Boltzmann was able to derive a proof of the irreversibility of macroscopic phenomena. It is the difference of scale between the objects that we observe in everyday life on the one hand, and molecules on the other hand, which explains this irreversibility through the laws of probability.