Infinite Time Quotes

• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Birthday, Time

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• Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Doe, Eternity

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• It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  Hannes Alfven

  Years, Twenties, Four

  "The World & I", Volume 3, Issues 5-6, May 1988.

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• Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Two, Darkness, Birth

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “My Name Is Red”, p.3, Faber & Faber

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• There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

  Marcel Proust

  Singing, Tilt, Climbs

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.424, Vintage

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• In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Space, Matter, Lasts

  Leo Tolstoy (2009). “Anna Karenina: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.362, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

  Gladys Taber

  Dream, Time, Being Alone

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• I am a gardener of infinite time.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Infinite, Gardener

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• Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence?

  Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

  Space, Groups, Moments

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• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Eye, Space

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• The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness.

  Elif Safak

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

  Lucretius

  Science, Past, Atoms

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Order, Should Have

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• God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cutting, Ideas

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4099, Delphi Classics

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• Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.

  Lucretius

  Moving, Blow, Order

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• Saying the universe is eternal simply is saying that it has no beginning or end, not that it had a beginning an infinite time ago

  Victor J. Stenger

  Ends, Eternal, Universe

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• It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to do, but because many of them by many chances struck one another in the course of infinite time and encountered every possible form and movement, that they found at last the disposition they have, and that is how the universe was created.

  Lucretius

  Spring, Order, Work Out

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.41, Psychology Press

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• What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Infinite, Moments, Salvation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1430, Manonmani Publishers

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• I was there when Abbe Georges Lemaître first proposed this [Big Bang] theory. ... There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. .... It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.

  Hannes Alfven

  Time, Science, Years

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• Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Eye, Science, Hands

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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• Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

  John Stuart Mill

  Past, Space, Islands

  Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism "The Utility of Religion" (1874)

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