Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”
“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”
“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.”
“Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.”
“Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.”
“Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.”
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knowledge, tragedy, happiness, time, loneliness, sadness, human-nature, ambition