Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams Quotes

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its clear flutelike song diminishes to silence, the trapped moment grows withered and without life.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…