Alan Lightman Quotes
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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