Quotes from book

Einstein's Dreams

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

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”

“Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”

“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”

“Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.”

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

“A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.”

“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”

“If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.”

“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”

“What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?”