Black Hole Quotes

“I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools in working my way through our social obligations. I believed that playing the roles of wife and mother were the least I could do to help support Tom's career.
During the day, I was a puzzle with innumerable pieces. One piece made my family a nourishing breakfast. Another piece ferried the kids to school and to soccer practice. A third piece managed to trip to the grocery store. There was also a piece that wanted to sleep for eighteen hours a day and the piece that woke up shaking from yet another nightmare. And there was the piece that attended business functions and actually fooled people into thinking I might have something constructive to offer.
I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair. A self-deprecating voice inside told me I had no chance of getting better. I lived in an emotional black hole.
p20-21, talking about dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder).”
― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Those who live to make darkness,
to destroy,
are really always alone,
alone in the very black hole they make.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Time cannot put anything in your hands until you let go off the time.”
― Vishwanath S J

“Quantum theory can explain that every black hole is a collapse of some vanishing functions due to the interference of a matrix of cosmic attention functions.”
― Amit Ray, Quantum Computing Algorithms for Artificial Intelligence

“Ultimate power is singular. It does not desire friends or allies nor work towards a greater good. It is an end to itself. A black hole which consumes everything it touches including the one who wields it. Still, few can resist its lure.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“Before I met you, all I could see was a black hole.
Now the nights are full of bright shining stars whispering your name into a constellation.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

“Time throws you out of its dimensionless planar like a boomerang. It unites with you again in death.”
― Vishwanath S J

“It was a dimly glowing mass of pale-blue light, mottled, immense, and terrifying. Even at the first glimpse I knew it was not a sun. No sun can be so blue and so dim. It hurt the eyes to look at it, not because of its brightness. It hurt inside the eyes, up far into the optic track; the pain was in the brain itself.”
― Frederick Pohl, Gateway

“You’re universally liked because you’re such a black hole in space. You don’t have any real traits. You’re sympa, at least as much as a narcissist can be, but that means nothing. You’re beautiful and everybody projects onto you what they’re looking for, which is easy to do since you don’t stand for anything definite. You’re a black hole in space.”
― Edmund White, Our Young Man

“Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“This “Hawking temperature” of a black hole and its “Hawking radiation” (as they came to be called) were truly radical—perhaps the most radical theoretical physics discovery in the second half of the twentieth century. They opened our eyes to profound connections between general relativity (black holes), thermodynamics (the physics of heat) and quantum physics (the creation of particles where before there were none). For example, they led Stephen to prove that a black hole has entropy, which means that somewhere inside or around the black hole there is enormous randomness. He deduced that the amount of entropy (the logarithm of the hole’s amount of randomness) is proportional to the hole’s surface area. His formula for the entropy is engraved on Stephen’s memorial stone at Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge, where he worked.
For the past forty-five years, Stephen and hundreds of other physicists have struggled to understand the precise nature of a black hole’s randomness. It is a question that keeps on generating new insights about the marriage of quantum theory with general relativity—that is, about the ill-understood laws of quantum gravity.”
― Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions

“A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.”
― Bill Gaede

“Time is a wave or a black hole could not bend it; humanity rides the crest of an infinite number of waves that are perceived as linear in their limited frame of reference.”
― Ken Poirot

“If my body is a Universe, I have a black hole. I mask it, but it sits at the center of my body. I question it. Am I living up to my potential? Would I lose my creativity if I got help? Isn't life a black hole?”
― Claudia Turner, Notes on a Hospitalized Pregnant Woman

“The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a Black Hole that knows how to read.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Garraty thought that memories were like a line drawn in the dirt. The further back you went the scuffier and harder to see that line got. Until finally there was nothing but smooth sand and the black hole of nothingness that you came out of. The memories were in a way like the road. Here it was real and hard and tangible. But that early road, that nine in the morning road, was far back and meaningless.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“It’s our version of a black hole. Just like amply compact mass can distort space and time to cause a black hole, a sufficiently dense breach of discipline in our office causes a black hole that sucks the offender away for eternity, never to spit him back.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“Imagine two black holes that lived a long life together. At the end of their lives they are going around each other, crossing a thousand of kilometeres in a fraction of a second. As they do so they leave behind in their wake a ringing of space, an actual wave on space-time. Space squeezes and streches as it emanates out from these black holes banging on the universe.Those are the gravitational waves and are literally the sounds of space ringing and they will travel out from these black holes at the speed of light as they ring down and coalesce into one, spinning, quiet, black hole.

If you were standing near enough, your ear would resonate with squeezing and streching of space, you would literally hear the sound.

- The sound the universe makes | Ted”
― Janna Levin

“Do not fall into a black hole.”
― Emma Chapman, First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time

“The resulting, stable singularities now carry the name BKL in honor of Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz. A BKL singularity is chaotic. Highly chaotic. And lethal. Highly lethal.”
― Kip S. Thorne, The Science of Interstellar

“They think, it is gonna be alright. That's what they, continually, think. As if nothing ever happened, at all. Bastards.”
― Petra Hermans

“If the universe is chaos, God is the biggest black hole”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Reality is based on unobservable mathematical points (singularities). That’s the secret of existence. What’s at the centre of a black hole? – a singularity. What was the Big Bang? – a singularity event. What is the Big Crunch? – when spacetime returns to a singularity. What is light made of? – photonic singularities (immaterial and dimensionless; according to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, photons have no mass, are maximally length contracted to zero, and time has stopped for them). The whole universe is made of light. It comes from light and returns to light. Light is all about points – singularities. Light is the basis of thought, the basis of mind, and the basis of matter. Everything is derived from light, and light is nothing but mathematical points defined by the generalised Euler Formula, and it creates the visible world via Fourier mathematics.”
― Mike Hockney, Richard Dawkins: The Pope of Unreason

“Generally speaking, the color black is an energetic black hole, pulling things toward it and transforming them in adverse ways with its absorbing and deadening power.”
― Cary G. Weldy, The Power of Tattoos: Twelve Hidden Energy Secrets of Body Art Every Tattoo Enthusiast Should Know

“Light has no mass and takes up no space. A black hole singularity is not that from which light cannot escape. A black hole singularity is light. It is that from which mass cannot escape. All material mass has been converted into light, hence is now massless. The only way you can fit mass into a Singularity is by converting it into massless light.”
― Jack Tanner, The Dimitri Revolution: How DMT Changed Humanity

“That’s when my eyes, like objects crossing over the event horizon of a black hole, were drawn inextricably to a dark and destructive place.”
― Sean Norris, Heaven and Hurricanes

“Not all black holes are millions of light years away; one exists in everyone's heart”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“At the centre of a black hole, space-time curves to an infinite point known as "singularity" where all matter is destroyed.
Love is that singularity”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Стаття ’т Гофта, яка на кілька місяців випередила мою, чомусь залишилася майже непоміченою. Частково це пов’язано з її назвою «Розмірна редукція у квантовій гравітації». Термін «розмірна редукція» є вузькоспеціалізованим. У фізиці, пов’язаній із технікою, він уживається дещо в іншому значенні, ніж у ’т Гофта. Я спробував зробити так, щоби мою статтю не спіткала така ж доля, і назвав її «Світ як голограма».”
― Леонард Сасскінд, Війна чорної діри