#time

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#time #defeat

If the moment is everthing, then everything is time. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophy #time #wisdom #life

But time is short, and science is infinite... ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#life #science #time #life

I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’ ‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#time #younger-generation #youth #life

I'm not going to stay sround to send reapers to kill people who are too scared, or frightened, or JUST PLAIN STUPID to find joy in life. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#madison #reapers #life

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time. ↗

— Toba Beta

#future #life #past #present #time-travel

you live through . . . that little piece of time that is yours, but that piece of time is not only your own life, it is the summing-up of all the other lives that are simultaneous with yours. It is, in other words, History, and what you are is an expression of History. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#time #life

When mortals discuss about the eternity, conclusively it will be a lifetime discussion. ↗

— Toba Beta

#eternity #life #lifetime #mortal #truth

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present. ↗

— Francesca Marciano

#present #time #life

That's just how time travel looks like to the untrained eye. The reason why there aren't more travelers is that your average physicist refuses to be eaten by a giraffe in the name of science. ↗

— Bradley Sands

#science #time-travel #science