Time Machine Quotes

“I have discovered that mortality is a boon as well as a curse. Knowing that you will die makes you appreciate each day that you are alive.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

“The window flew open all the way. The stack of papers in Lincoln’s hand was sucked out. “Oh man,” said Eddie. “I’m so sorry.”
“Do not be disconsolate,” said Lincoln. “Perhaps we have just witnessed the hand of Providence.” He reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a broad envelope and a pen. “I have some thoughts.” He stared into the distance. “How about, ‘Four score and seven years ago—” “That’s, um, thirty-five, right?” said Eddie. “Four scores is twenty-eight points. Unless they went for two-point conversions.”
― Steve Bates, Back To You

“Kevyn, Ennesby tells me you are building a time machine.

Actually I'm finished.

In one afternoon? Wow... Does it work?

After a fashion.

...

I put a whole lot of energy into it, and the next thing I knew it was time for dinner.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Andreyasn”
― Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness

“…The time machine quietly disintegrated with leprosy of unsaid hurts and accusations that peeled back skin, muscle, and bone, snapping off love’s digits, fingers, arms, and legs in agonizing screams …”
― Michal Majernik, Mechanical Bull

“I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.”
― John Lewis Gaddis, The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past

“You don't need a time machine to live in the moment.”
― Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone

“If you ever find yourself coming out of a time machine, run. Run away as fast you can. Don't stop. Don't try to talk. Nothing good can come out of it." narrator Charles Yu, not author Charles Yu p19”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

“It's quite simple, they poisoned it with smoke, chemicals and pollution from factories and cars, and power stations. Silly humans knew what they were doing, but carried on poisoning the planet anyway.”
― Richard J. Ward, The Hermit and the Time Machine

“Why speed life up? There is so precious little of it.”
― Mark Andrew Poe

“Changing the land is shaping the future. In a sense, a bulldozer is a time machine.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“My mind has a time machine; it can travel back to the past when I close my eyes and in my dreams it travels to the future.”
― Munia Khan

“Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape.”
― Richard J. Ward, The Hermit and the Time Machine

“In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are Surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......”
― Aldrin Mathew, TIME TRAVEL EXPERIENCES: In a Sense, we all are Time Travelers! We are surviving each and every Active Time-Point in this Timeline.......

“Live & Do everything in such a way so that if you look back in time, you shouldn't say that if had a time machine i would've done it better.”
― Immanuel Mohan

“Einstein on time travel:
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
― Albert Einstein

“Carmen saves the young child and is rewarded with a look of gratitude. His smile turns into a puzzle as he no longer hold the little girl, but his dark haired goddess”
― Solange nicole, My Beloved Tourniquet

“There is a lot I could have anticipated but I live in present & there is no anticipation to it, I wish I had a time machine”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“It's gonna take a whole lotta zombies, believe you me.”
― Vermin Supreme

“Even if you time travel your past, it can't be changed, likewise you can't possibly change your future, it is always the present which matters.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“The causality violation device may be doing something else. May have already done it. Something wonderful and terrible.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“We're in a time machine, Terence, you and I, right now. It's stuck in one gear and it's slow as hell, but it works. It's bringing us into the future. And I think that future might actually be good. I think it might be okay.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“The device,' Philip said. 'What are you going to do with it?'

'I know how this sounds. But you'll have to trust us. We'll take possession of it. We're going to dismantle it; when we do so, the wormhole will close, making this the final version of history we live through. Then we're going to box up the device and forget about it. Lose it somewhere; burn the records. It'll end up in a warehouse right next to the Ark of Covenant.”
― Dexter Palmer, Version Control

“To take the time machine, one had to simply lift its case”
― M. Mehwar Anjum, The Heist

“My mind is a time machine”
― Richard L Ratliff

“Time Expansion Machine"

For people who need to get there 'Whenever”
― Neil Leckman

“If you had the ability to time-travel to the future to see what you would become, would you still be doubtful?”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“…I can accept all this if you just let me go back sometimes.”
― Mary Laura Philpott, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

“RELFECTIONS (Time Machine III)

A young man stares at his reflection,
And sees an old man looking back.
“Where did the time go?” he wonders.
And, “How did we ever lose track?”
“Is this the same person,
that amounts to wondrous things?
How long did we spend dreaming?
Is this reflection really as it seems?
Who are you old man?
I’ve seen you in times before.
Is this, the face that greets me,
the mask I always wore?”
The young man drops his stare,
And moves towards the door.
The boy he thought he was,
He can recognize no more.”
― C. Sean McGee, {self-titled}

“Our love is a Time Machine,
neither here nor there—
a breaking in the heart
yet to happen”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems