Alan Lightman Quotes

The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon discover that the nightingale expires, its cle...

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how c...

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a ...

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

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

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

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a ka...

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

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never ...

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything h...

I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time ...

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication techn...

Something else gets under your skin, keeps you working days and nights at the sacrifice of your slee...

Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I stud...

Then there are those who think their bodies don't exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at ...

As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowle...

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, h...

Two men who had never seen each other before and would not likely see each other again. But their si...

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owne...

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give ...

Continents of memory had been lost.

When a traveler from the future must talk, he does not talk but whimpers. He whispers tortured sound...

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