While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMANSo it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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