Temporal Displacement Quotes

If you came from the future and you arrived here, what would you be like? Would your immune system be depressed from that travel? Would you be well? Would you be ill? Would you be affected by micro-organisms of the time period and be hiding out in a basement? How would it all work, practically?

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

I have a time machine at home. It only goes forward at regular speed

We are all time travelers moving at the speed of exactly 60 minutes per hour.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Books are a time machine.

Time machine... wouldn't you like to travel through time? I would. I'd go back... mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya'know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I'm your son from the future! Ahaha!

In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly; “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

It was quite a surprise when I realized that with a single wormhole you could have time hook up towards the future or towards the past and that you can actually manipulate the wormhole and change how time hooked up.

But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.

Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.