Bob Dylan Quotes

Old is always fifteen years from now.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

When you are in the future, the past looks different.

But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past and the futures is that one has happened while the other has not. Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time. Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word 'finite' (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves...) Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon. Lies 7: Reality is truth.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.

Illusion, Temperament, Succession, Surface, Surprise, Reality, Subjectiveness,--these are the threads on the loom of time, these are the lords of life.

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

Your mind and a computer have one thing in common: neither of them know the difference between the truth... and what you tell it.

Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers.