Time Travel Quotes

Shh! Listen! Someone’s coming! I think — I think it might be us!

~ J.k. Rowling

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

~ Diana Gabaldon

You are telling me that I did something because I was going to do something.”“Well, didn’t you? You were there.”“No, I didn’t—no… well, maybe I did, but it didn’t feel like it.”“Why should you expect it to? It was something totally new to your experience.”“But… but—” Wilson took a deep breath and got control of himself. Then he reached back into his academic philosophical concepts and produced the notion he had been struggling to express. “It denies all reasonable theories of causation. You would have me believe that causation can be completely circular. I went through because I came back from going through to persuade myself to go through. That’s silly.”“Well, didn’t you?

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Time travel..will never be impossible forever.

~ Toba Beta

I can not travel into my past,without consent of the future me.

~ Toba Beta

He met me at the airport; it was ten in the morning, Washington time, when I arrived, after having taken a plane that left Los Angeles International at 10:10 A.M. Los Angeles time. Who says time-reversal is hard to accomplish?

~ Robert Silverberg

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

Why, yes. I am a strange wonder. The most special of snowflakes! Born out of time, forever running to catch up to it!

~ Ryan Graudin

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

~ Joyce Rachelle

The first thing we should do in order to grasp the realm of time travel is by redefining general perception and common concepts regarding time within our daily language structure.

~ Toba Beta

If we do not laugh, we will cry. Crying will only make us hotter and sweatier. We Jews like to joke about death because what you laugh at and make familiar can no longer frighten you. Besides, Chayaleh, what else is there to do?

~ Jane Yolen

What made you know so much about all of this?” She didn’t try to come across as angry, just curious. “It’s called American High School. Don’t worry; I’m a pastor’s wife. I speak Pretentious Caddy Women fluently.” She looked up at me questioningly. I knew she didn’t understand my humor but I thought I was hilarious.

~ Anna Aquino

It would distort markets. Besides, if I bought a load of gold when I thought the price was going up, then it would drive up the price at that point. When I came to sell in the future it would depress the price. Thus, I wouldn't make the killing I thought I would, would I?Yeah, but futures contracts.Same thing, dear boy.Art, then.If I bought Constable's Hay Wain direct from the artist it wouldn't have the same cachet as it does today. The absence of that piece from the market might mean that all of his work was devalued.Yeah, but you could bring another piece back.Ah, then the paint and canvas wouldn't age correctly. For older objets d'art, the carbon dating would show it was younger than it should be. Sorry, Kevin. You're not going to get rich by temporal smuggling or speculation.

~ Mark Speed

The one that will put the first human colony on another planet is certainly the most important human on Earth. And you can judge the rest of mankind of his time by how they judge him along the way.

~ Robin Sacredfire

That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

~ James A. Owen

the only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself.

~ Douglas Adams

Faye keeps forgetting what she'll be giving up if she decides to stay here. Access to modern medicine, for starters. In 2015 people can survive cancer, tuberculosis, scarlet fever. Vaccines eradicated polio and measles. Do you really want to live in a world with iron lungs and polio, Faye? Do you?” “I guess I could go back to 2015 and live in a world with meth, heroin, terrorism, HIV and Ebola. Huge improvement, right?

~ Tiffany Reisz

It was dizzying—cause and effect, round and round, stretching back to the source.

~ Heidi Heilig

If you think that you can outrun time, you must be thinking fiction.

~ Syed Basit Naqvi

It's been a long time since I felt something like hope. Don't ask me to give it up for Netflix and a Prius.

~ Tiffany Reisz

He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.

~ Dexter Palmer

People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.

~ K. Martin Beckner

You’re white. You’re straight. You’re well educated, healthy and beautiful. Every time is for people like you.

~ Tiffany Reisz

She hadn't gone back in time. The idea was

~ Dexter Palmer

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

In another place was a vast array of idols—Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy.

~ H.g. Wells

All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

~ H.g. Wells

So each generation set out to find more of its kind, and within just a few cycles of birth and death, the Club had spread not only through space, but also time, propagating itself forwards into the twentieth century and back into the Middle Ages, the death of each member spreading the word of what it was to the very extremes of the times in which they lived.

~ Claire North

But the hair on her arms did not stand on end; she did not experience any strange instances of déjà vu; she did not see the ghosts of future selves shimmering before her, shouting stock picks back through time.

~ Dexter Palmer

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.

~ Douglas Adams

At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counterBut there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)

~ Timothy Leary

If the future changed, and the time traveler we're talking about was from that future, and was the product of events that created that future, why wouldn't the time traveler also change when those events changed?

~ Dexter Palmer

I'm not going to stand here and be eaten by some bitch's dinosaur. I am finally doing something with my life.

~ Brian K. Vaughan

You could consider the idea of the multiverse, and think of it as something like a tree—that is, the universe we live in is one of an uncountable number of branches of possible universes, created by random chance and the decisions of sentient beings. So, for instance, when I rang you up in the morning, there was a possible future universe in which you answered the phone, and another in which you did not, and by answering the phone you put us in one universe and not the other. In that instance the time traveler doesn't just move from the future to the past and back to the future: he moves down one branch of the universe, toward the root that's back at the beginning of time, and back up another branch.

~ Dexter Palmer

I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.

~ Lisa Tawn Bergren

But we think that if a human were to violate conventional causality—''By time traveli

~ Dexter Palmer

She closed her eyes, and as had been her habit over these past couple of days, she began to imagine possible past histories and what she might have done to change them into the new one in which she lived, either inadvertently, or out of a misguided attempt to play God and make the world a better place, or, worse, with malice aforethought. Any time she spent in the past would have been clipped out of history, as neatly as if it had never happened, because it hadn't happened.

~ Dexter Palmer

Time travel would give humanity the ability to alter the past and prune the tree of all possible futures of those branches that had been infected by evil, with enough revisions humans would eventually bring about the one version of history that was fully good.

~ Dexter Palmer

Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I’m talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we’re claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy.

~ Douglas Adams

If you don't like the place where you find yourself, Waldemar, it pays to remember that you'll be somewhere else in just a moment. The place itself will be a different place.

~ John Wray