The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever.
Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."
On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.
We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae destined to be forgotten, always looks smaller in comparison.
Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all.
Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is
A million years went by quick.
Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.
Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.
Time is a person-made concept.
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?
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.
Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.
