Quotes About Time

The most important thing to remember about depression is this: you do not get the time back. It is not tacked on at the end of your life to make up for the disaster years. Whatever time is eaten by a depression is gone forever. The minutes that are ticking by as you experience the illness are minutes you will not know again.

I regret everything because it has just finished, and already when I was twelve, I lamented the time that had gone by. Even in the best of spirits, it's always been as though I wrestle with the present in a vain effort to stop its becoming the past.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

spacetime model, we might now reasonably ask what is the momentum of the car through time. The answer, fairly obviously, is that

The combined speed of any object's motion through space and its motion through time is always precisely equal to the speed of light.

the whole block of spacetime from the start of the universe to the end of the universe exists as one unchanging block. This is called the block universe model.

instead of time defining the behaviour of a clock, the light clock essentially defines time!

if the Sun disappeared instantaneously, the Earth would continue to orbit the position of the Sun for seven minutes until the bad news reached us in the form of gravitational waves.

a stationary object moves through time at the speed of light.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A time dimension is required so that energy is possible.

As we move about in space, we are also moving forward in time. This means we effectively navigate a path through spacetime called a world line.

Just like a wine glass breaking, or a car rusting, the entropy of a closed system will always increase with time.

Downgrade the "now". Realise that the current moment is no more real than the past moments in your life.

If a loved one dies, you might take some comfort from the knowledge that this period of time in which your loved one is dead has, in fact, no greater reality than the time when your loved one was alive. According to physics, it is just as valid to consider your loved one as alive as it is to consider them dead!

Fitzgerald's attachment to those who had shared his time and experience here on earth, his sense of identity with them, his caring---that is perhaps the final burden and beauty of these letters.

From all his father had said, the newspapers in his time had always been careful to discover the truth so that they should not inadvertently print it.

Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I'd long forgotten. Most of all, I am wishing for something to fasten all these gems, maybe something to hold them in a continuity that I can comprehend.

It was foolish to worry about time, of course. Time plays a role when there's someone to keep track of it, to depend on it. And if no-one like that remains, then time, too, stops and disappears.

And that survey is the one we all go back to. When you find one of their original corners, it is like a handshake with the past.

Life is like that; all things come to an end. There are some trees where owls have nested for hundreds of years, and yet at some point they leave it empty, don't return there.

although we're heading in the same direction, we will never meet again. So great is the sea and so tiny are we.

I was wandering in time, and entered a door to the past just before it closed over.

No. I've no time to waste. Winter's coming.