Quotes by : Alan Lightman

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

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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

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

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

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

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

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

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

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